Land holdings — claims, leases and boundaries

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.