"The principle of the GIS was first conceived in the early 1960's and the first system, the Canadian Geographical Information System (CGIS) was implemented in 1964." (Smith et al 1987)
Similar to the Ontario government's interest and concern in the 1960's, for automating and querying extensive amounts of data, L.U. Maughan Company in the 1980's, began to build a database, to provide efficient retrieval of survey based information for its clients. Later, in the 1990's, this database would be used as the basis for a GIS. Our corporate success has created the opportunity to offer local municipalities and other organizations reliable data management with this increasingly popular technology.
"A GIS brings information together, it unifies and integrates that information. It makes available information to which no one had access before, and places old information in a new context. It often brings together information which either was not or could not be brought together previously" (Dangermond 1989)

Our company has provided parcel mapping for the province in southern Ontario and municipalities in the central region of Ontario. In our own part of the world, which is geomorphically complex, we have endeavoured to provide critical land surveying knowledge and experience to assure long term integrity to local parcel mapping. Our parcel mapping and GIS services are growing and are currently being provided to the following great municipalities in our area:

  • Township of Carling
  • Municipality of McKellar
  • Municipality of McDougall
  • Township of The Archipelago
  • Municipality of the Town of Parry Sound
  • Municipality of Whitestone
With the GIS as a data management and decision support tool, organizations and municipalities can provide important land or spatial related services to clients and the public.

We use a geographical computer system to manage our own in house survey projects as well as provide added value to all our clientele requiring digital mapping and geographical information projects.



Data Base Management

· Property Records
· Product Inventory


Property and Topographical Line Work

Tracing and Scaling
· Basic Index Mapping

Coordinate Geometry
· Regional (LUMCO) Parcel Mapping
· Teranet
· POLARIS




See Surveying to appreciate the basis for the development of a GIS database.
See Mapping to appreciate products deriving from managed spatial databases.




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