International · World parcel maps · October 24, 2026

Which Countries Have Free Official Parcel Maps?

A guide to free official parcel and cadastral maps outside the US: Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and the US territories.

In the United States, almost every county publishes a free parcel map. That's not true everywhere. Some countries put their entire cadastre online for free, some charge for everything, and some have no national parcel map at all. This guide covers the countries Platbookmapper lists, picked for English-speaking buyers, landowners and researchers, and says plainly where a free map exists and where it doesn't.

Summary

Canada

Land registration in Canada is a provincial and territorial responsibility, so most maps cover a whole province rather than a county. Parcel numbers differ by province: a PID in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, a LINC in Alberta, a PIN in Ontario and a lot number in Quebec. Ontario has no free province-wide parcel map, so city maps are the free option there. Federal Canada Lands, including many lands in the territories, national parks and First Nation reserves, are shown in Natural Resources Canada's CLSS Map Browser.

Guides: Canada parcel IDs explained, Quebec Infolot, Ontario PIN and ARN, Alberta land title map.

Mexico

Mexico has no national parcel map. The catastro (the property cadastre used for the predial tax) is a municipal responsibility, often coordinated by a state office, and most catastros don't publish a free lot map. Ownership is recorded in each state's Registro Público de la Propiedad. Ejido and communal land is registered with the federal Registro Agrario Nacional (RAN). Two national viewers help everywhere: INEGI's Mapa Digital de México (boundaries, localities and streets, but not lots) and a RAN map of ejido and communal land. A few states and cities, such as Jalisco, Tabasco and Mexico City, have their own lot maps.

Australia

Every Australian state and territory publishes its cadastre in a free viewer, and most open with no account: SDT Explorer (NSW), VicPlan, Queensland Globe, Landgate Map Viewer Plus (WA), Location SA, LISTmap (Tasmania), ACTmapi and NR Maps (NT). Parcels are identified by lot and plan. See free property boundary maps in Australia.

New Zealand

LINZ keeps the national register, but the public's free maps are council viewers, which draw boundaries from the LINZ cadastre and add zones, valuations and hazards. Records of Title cost $8 each from LINZ. See property boundaries in New Zealand for free.

United Kingdom

Three registers, three answers. England and Wales: HM Land Registry's Search for land and property information has a map search (GOV.UK says sign-in is needed); the free summary doesn't name the owner, and the title register costs £7. HMLR also publishes free INSPIRE Index Polygons for registered freehold land. Scotland: ScotLIS map search is free with no account, and a title sheet costs £3.60. Northern Ireland: no public online map; the public request searches from Land & Property Services. See free land registry maps in the UK.

Ireland

Tailte Éireann's registry map on landdirect.ie is free to search as a guest, and shows the folio number for registered plots. A plain folio copy costs €5. About 90% of land is registered. See landdirect.ie map search as a guest.

U.S. territories

Puerto Rico (CRIM Catastro Digital), the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands all publish official parcel maps. American Samoa doesn't, because most land is communal family land that can't be sold to outsiders. See parcel maps for the U.S. territories.

Why some countries have free maps and others don't

• Who pays for the register. Where the register is funded by fees, governments often charge for maps. Where land data is treated as public infrastructure, maps tend to be free.
• Tax systems. U.S. counties publish parcel maps partly because property tax runs on them. Countries with central registries often publish through the registry instead.
• Privacy. Many countries show boundaries free but charge for owner names. The United States is unusual in how often owner names are free online.

What a free map can't do anywhere

Everywhere on this list, an online parcel map is a reference, not a survey or a title search. Before you buy land or settle a boundary question, get the official title record from the land registry and use a licensed surveyor.

Common questions

Which countries have free national parcel maps? Among the countries we cover, Ireland has a national registry map; Australia, Canada and New Zealand publish free maps state by state, province by province or council by council.

Does Mexico have an online parcel map? Not nationally. Some states and cities do; national viewers show boundaries and ejidos.

Can I find owners for free? In most of these countries, owner names cost a small fee from the registry.

Related guides

• How to find a parcel map outside the U.S. on Platbookmapper
• Buying land in Mexico
• Parcel maps outside the U.S.

Sources

• Platbookmapper country pages, with viewer links checked October 23–24, 2026.
• GOV.UK: Search for land and property information, Registers of Scotland: ScotLIS, Tailte Éireann: Land Registry FAQs, LINZ: land record order fees.