Provenance & verification
Where the site intelligence comes from
CivilProposal's preliminary scoping is sourced: it combines commercially licensed municipal, provincial, and federal open data with planning-level rules. It is not generative AI. Every sourced value in the report names its source, and every gap is labelled rather than filled in. Site facts come from licensed government data, not AI.
391 sourced site data points · 109 government publishers · 230 municipalities · federal and provincial data across Canada · municipal data covering 69% of Canadians
230
municipalities with a licence-approved layer
32
licence-approved federal layers
11
provinces and territories with province-wide layers
109
approved government publishers
Live figures from our coverage registry. Coverage varies by municipality and dataset: see the full map.
How every report row is labelled
Sourced values show with their source; every other row carries one of six labels: Published standard, Confirm, Searched, nothing found, Temporarily unavailable, On the publisher's site or No approved source. Your team sees exactly what was sourced and what still needs checking. Where data isn't open, the row links to the office or lookup page to confirm with, instead of guessing.
Sourced
A value matched against an official open-data record at the site. It shows with its source line and needs no badge.
Published standard
A design value from a governing manual, statutory table or curated reference shipped with the app, such as ECCC IDF rainfall values. The value you design to, not a site measurement.
Confirm
Proximity screening, reference data, an estimate, or a validation guard. Confirm with the issuing authority before relying on it.
Searched, nothing found
The source answered and no record touches the site. A real no-hit, not a clearance. Radius searches with no hit read None found.
Temporarily unavailable
The source was queried and failed or timed out on this run. Regenerate to retry.
On the publisher's site
A source exists, but its licence does not allow commercial reuse, so the report links to the publisher's own page instead of reproducing it.
No approved source
No commercially licensed source is integrated for this question here yet.
Only commercially licensed open data
The report uses only open data whose licence allows commercial use and redistribution in client reports, with the publisher's attribution. Where a municipality's data is not licensed for that use, the report says so and tells you whom to confirm with, rather than guessing. Some large municipalities publish data under terms that do not allow this yet, so their rows link to the publisher's own page ("On the publisher's site") until the publisher grants permission.
Every source link opens the publisher's own page, never a raw API endpoint, and where the source layer supports it, a "View at site" link opens that layer at the site itself in the publisher's public map viewer.
Sources we draw on
Federal, provincial and municipal open data, integrated where the licence allows commercial reuse. Each data point carries source attribution for independent verification.
Parcel, zoning & plans
Municipal zoning, official plan and overlay layers; province-wide parcel fabrics in BC, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Yukon; provincial plan areas and the BC Agricultural Land Reserve.
Flood, wetland & water
Flood mapping from every tier that publishes it under an open licence: municipal overlays, Ontario conservation authorities (Toronto and Region, Credit Valley, Grand River, Lake Simcoe Region, Niagara Peninsula, Hamilton Region and others), provincial flood mapping and the federal Flood Map Inventory. Source-water protection areas in BC, Québec, Newfoundland and Labrador and Yukon.
Servicing
Water, sanitary and storm mains where the municipality licenses them, plus hydrant counts, catch basins, outfalls, culverts, stormwater ponds and water pressure zones where published.
Roads & traffic
Road owner and class province-wide in Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia and Yukon, from municipal networks elsewhere, and a federal road class for every site. Posted speed and traffic counts where published.
Transit
Scheduled stops and routes near the site from 23 transit agencies whose GTFS feeds are licensed for commercial reuse, plus municipal stop layers.
Heritage & Indigenous context
Municipal heritage registers, provincial registers in BC, Québec and Nova Scotia, and federal treaty and First Nations records (screening only, not a substitute for consultation).
Geology, mines & contamination
Surficial geology, boreholes and mineral tenure where published, orphaned and abandoned mines, and the Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory.
Soil
AAFC Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) polygons and soil landscape grids for soil order, texture and organic content, supplemented by provincial soil surveys where published (for example Manitoba and Alberta's saline and solonetzic soils atlas). Modeled screening, not a laboratory texture test.
Climate & design rainfall
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC): climate normals and IDF design-rainfall curves.
Elevation & terrain
NRCan elevation for every site; contours from the Ontario Base Map and municipal layers.
Seismic, wildfire & existing structures
NBC 2020/2025 seismic hazard values and site class, mapped wildfire perimeters and fire history near the site, and mapped building footprints and heights for the site and its neighbours. Built for civil engineers; useful reference for structural, seismic and other disciplines on the same project.
What you must verify
Planning-level outputs are not regulatory clearances. Confirm zoning, floodplain regulation, permits, servicing, and design parameters with the municipality and authorities having jurisdiction before relying on them in a fee proposal.
Preliminary, planning-level screening, not a sealed engineering report. Verify with qualified professionals and authorities before client submission. Read disclaimer