Overview
About this application
If you're on Prince Edward Island, Canada, this app uses the location of your device to calculate what lot (or "township") you're in. There are 67 lots and three "royalties" (Charlottetown, Georgetown and Princetown) originally laid out by Samuel Holland in 1765. While they are largely no longer in contemporary use, they are irrevocably imprinted on the Island landscape, through the shapes of roads and property lines.
The app will look up your location, and either (a) display the number of the lot you're currently inside, (b) tell you it can't find your location or (c) tell you that you're not on Prince Edward Island (which might be true if, for example, you're on a beach or a bridge, all appearances to the contrary).
As long as you have the app open, it will continue to update the lot number, so if you go for a drive in the countryside, you can watch it update as you cross lot lines.
The app will also remember which lots you've visited, and will colour-code these in red on the map.
On the information page about each lot you'll find the following information:
<ul><li>The name or number of the lot or royalty.</li><li>The county – Prince, Queens or Kings – that the lot is located in.</li><li>The parish that the lot is located in. Each county is subdivided into 4 or 5 parishes.</li><li>Holland's rating of the lot – Poor, Average or Excellent.</li><li>The name of the original landlord granted the lot by lottery.</li><li>A brief description of the landlord and their circumstances.</li><li>The size of the lot, three ways: as estimated by Samuel Holland, as calculated from the 1911 census by Andrew Hill Clark in Three Centuries and the Island, and the modern measure from the contemporary map.</li></ul>
The app will look up your location, and either (a) display the number of the lot you're currently inside, (b) tell you it can't find your location or (c) tell you that you're not on Prince Edward Island (which might be true if, for example, you're on a beach or a bridge, all appearances to the contrary).
As long as you have the app open, it will continue to update the lot number, so if you go for a drive in the countryside, you can watch it update as you cross lot lines.
The app will also remember which lots you've visited, and will colour-code these in red on the map.
On the information page about each lot you'll find the following information:
<ul><li>The name or number of the lot or royalty.</li><li>The county – Prince, Queens or Kings – that the lot is located in.</li><li>The parish that the lot is located in. Each county is subdivided into 4 or 5 parishes.</li><li>Holland's rating of the lot – Poor, Average or Excellent.</li><li>The name of the original landlord granted the lot by lottery.</li><li>A brief description of the landlord and their circumstances.</li><li>The size of the lot, three ways: as estimated by Samuel Holland, as calculated from the 1911 census by Andrew Hill Clark in Three Centuries and the Island, and the modern measure from the contemporary map.</li></ul>