Land, maps and consultation

Your land, on your own map.

Treaty areas, reserves, harvesting areas, government data and your own research, on one map the Nation controls. When a referral comes in, see what it touches.

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An area alert. Illustration, not a real referral.

How it often works now

An outside company does the mapping.

To see your own data, you call them and ask.

Referrals are tracked in a spreadsheet.

The email inbox becomes the real archive.

Site details are buried in reports.

Dates, who was there, who did the interview: all inside long PDFs.

"An outside company holds the raw data well organized, but nobody here can get at it."Paraphrased from a call with a First Nation consultation researcher, October 2026.

Layers you choose

Add your territory, traplines, reserve lands, treaty boundaries and your own places. Turn each layer on or off. Pick its colour and line style.

Share a link and your co-worker sees the same view. They only see the items they're allowed to see.

A map with a traditional territory outline, 14 trapline areas, reserve lands, proposed harvest blocks and the Treaty 6 boundary — A demo Nation's territory, 14 trapline areas, reserve lands and the Province's proposed Block 7. Treaty boundary: Government of Canada open data. Tap the picture to see it full size.

Government data, next to yours

Bring in public layers from Alberta and Canada: wildfires, forest management agreements, coal agreements, mineral agreements, parks and more.

See them on the same map as your harvesting areas and sites. No GIS staff needed to look.

A map of Alberta crowded with points and shapes, and a row of layer buttons for wildfires, place names, forest agreements, historic treaties, coal agreements and more — Public government data in one folder. The number on each button is how many shapes it holds.

Consultation

A referral comes in. Does it touch us?

From email to alert, with the deadline

Forward or CC the referral email to SovereignD. It's filed with its map and attachments, and stays searchable.
SovereignD reads the location from the referral: a map file, a shapefile or coordinates.
It checks the location against your watch areas, like traditional territory or a trapline.
If they overlap, the right people get an alert with the response deadline, and the referral shows on the map.
Put it on a board to track the response and who's on it.

Sensitive areas stay private. The alert can say "overlaps a protected area" without showing the shape to people who aren't allowed to see it.

Referral 2026-TH-0417 · Block 7From the Province · map file attached

Reads the location

Overlaps trapline T-2Alert to the lands officer · response due 3 Nov

On the referrals boardassigned · response drafting

Drawn from the demo system. Demo data.

Elders' interviews, with the map following along

Play an interview, and the map moves to each place as the speaker talks about it. Open a person, and see everything they've talked about in one place.

Recordings and their transcripts are searchable, and every line has a time. Places, people and events can be linked to each recording.

The map follows the interview. Illustration.

Sacred sites stay protected

Limit a site to named people. Others don't see it on the map, in search or in exports.

Draw your own places

Mark a site, an area or a route right on the map, and link it to stories and documents.

Dates and places together

Use the timeline to see what happened on the land in a given year. See the archive