Data sources & methods

What you can search

Every Manitoba property except Winnipeg, which has its own portal. Searchable by:

• civic address
• municipality
• roll number
• legal description
• certificate of title

Each result is enriched with:

• its top-2 zoning districts, with coverage %
• its primary development-plan designation
• the by-law numbers behind each

Legal-description and certificate-of-title search run against a generated MAO scrape index. A substring match resolves to the live parcel record through Roll Entry, so the geometry and assessment fields you end up looking at are always current — the index is how the parcel is found, not where its numbers come from.

How current the data is

The scrape index behind legal and title search is kept current on three separate clocks, because the three kinds of change happen at different rates:

Dates per municipality are in Property Data Status in the app's top bar.

Live provincial sources

• Roll Entry — parcel geometry and current assessment fields
• Zoning By-Laws — zoning districts and by-law numbers
• Development Plan Designations — development-plan designation and by-law

What your browser caches

Cached locally for up to 7 days, so repeat work in one area stays quick:

• municipality and category dropdowns
• the zoning and development-plan overlays
• contaminated sites
• traffic flow
• the full municipal parcel fabric

The Clear button wipes that cache.

Land Facts

The Agricultural column preset, the parcel popup and the CSV export. Pre-computed for every parcel of 20 acres or more with a MASC rating, from four federal open datasets:

Refresh

• Crop history — rebuilt monthly (built on the 14th, published on the 15th), and gains a year whenever AAFC publishes one.
• Elevation, wetland and water — refreshed by hand. Their sources move on a scale of years.

How to read it

• The crop inventory is a satellite classification, not a cropping record. AAFC targets 85% overall accuracy nationally and publishes none per parcel.
• Read the pattern across years rather than any single year.
• A year shown as not observed means the inventory did not see the land that year — not that nothing grew.
• Nothing in Land Facts is a wetland delineation, a drainage opinion or a survey.

Crop History overlay

Under Agricultural layers, driven by the same record as Land Facts. Two views of the parcel fabric:

• Years Cropped — shades each parcel by the share of its observed years that were at least half annual crop.
• Land Use — colours it by the cover group of its most recently observed year: annual crop, grass/pasture, trees/shrub, water/wetland, barren/built.

Both are the crop inventory read per parcel, with the same accuracy caveat as above.

Land Cover

The Land Cover and Cult % columns, the parcel popup breakdown and the Land Cover map overlay. They answer one question of a farmland parcel: what share of it is cultivated land, and what the rest is — Cultivated, Pasture/Grass, Bush/Treed, Wetland/Water, Other.

Two sources feed it, and both are shown.

The headline

For every parcel of 20 acres or more with a MASC rating: the AAFC crop inventory read per pixel over 2021–2025.

• A pixel counts as cultivated when it grew annual crop in at least two of those five years, or in 2025 regardless — so ground broken or bush cleared recently is caught.
• Every other pixel takes the cover it showed most often.

That is a land-use reading: a quarter in hay this year is still cultivated land. It is deliberately not the latest year's crop share, a figure that runs about ten points low.

The cross-check

Also the headline for parcels of 10–20 acres: Statistics Canada's Land Cover Register (catalogue 16-510-X, 30 m, Statistics Canada Open Licence).

• Its pixels describe 2020.
• The edition in use was published March 27, 2025, and nothing newer has been issued.
• Both dates are given because earlier Canadian land-cover vintages (NRCan's 2010, 2015 and 2020) are also in circulation.

Where the two disagree

• Across 173,671 parcels they agree on cultivated share to a median of 0.0 points.
• Where they differ by 20 points or more on any bucket, the parcel is marked ⚠ in the grid and the popup — at that gap neither classifier is authoritative and the imagery is.
• The register cannot separate its grassland-and-shrubland class, so the two will legitimately differ on shrub-heavy ground. Shrubland is counted as bush here.

Which lines are firm

• Crop versus not is the firm one, and firmest in the Central Plains and the Southeast.
• Bush versus pasture is the softest line in either source — a Manitoba crown-land assessment found forest under-read and shrubland over-read by roughly a fifth each.

Schedule

• The headline is rebuilt on the 14th of every month and published on the 15th, reading every parcel from the newest weekly assembly — so a newly created parcel waits at most a month for its figures.
• A new crop-inventory year enters the five-year window the month AAFC publishes it, typically late summer.
• The register has no schedule. Statistics Canada updates it occasionally, and the 2020 edition is the current one.