# Land holdings — claims, leases and boundaries

> Bring in claims and lease boundaries from GIS files and see them on every map.

Source: https://geodb.io/guide/topic/landholding/ · Category: Getting set up
Land holdings are the polygons your ground position is made of — lode and
placer claims, leases, licenses, patented ground. Once they're in, they
draw on the interactive map, the 3D scene, and any dataroom or map you
share.

## Getting boundaries in

The fastest path is a GIS file you already have: a zipped shapefile, a
GeoPackage, or a KML/KMZ straight from your claim-staking software or a
government download. Drop it on the **importer** — geoDB recognises land
polygons, maps the attribute columns (claim name, type, status, recording
info) and validates before anything is saved. Files that arrive as
boundary *lines* rather than polygons are closed into polygons
automatically where possible.

You can also add a single holding by hand from the land holdings page when
there's just one lease to sketch.

## What the records carry

Each holding keeps its geometry plus the paperwork fields that matter:
claim or lease name, type, status, dates, and any custom fields your
project defines. The map colours holdings by status, so "active claim"
versus "dropped" is visible at a glance.

## Keeping it current

Land positions change — new stakes, drops, amendments. Re-importing an
updated file matches on claim names and updates what changed rather than
duplicating. Your originals stay untouched in the file you imported from.