Toronto-based Ecopia AI has launched an online data portal giving users direct access to purchase and download high-precision land cover and transportation mapping data across more than 75 individual layers.
The self-service platform allows data professionals to browse, purchase, and download detailed vector datasets derived from high-resolution geospatial imagery, covering features including impervious surfaces, building footprints, road markings, and pedestrian access routes. Supported use cases include transportation planning, stormwater management, and permitting workflows.
Data is available in shapefile, GeoJSON, and drawing exchange format for integration with GIS and CAD tools.
Ecopia has been supplying high-precision mapping data to public sector, civil engineering, insurance, and telecommunications customers since 2013. The new portal extends that reach by making the company's off-the-shelf catalog available to any user on demand. Buyers can designate an area of interest and order specific layers within that area. Custom orders are also available for locations or features not currently in the off-the-shelf catalog.
The underlying data comprises 75-plus layers of land cover and transportation vectors extracted from Nearmap's North American imagery archive. Ecopia says its AI-based extraction systems achieve greater than 95% geometric accuracy, and the company positions the platform as a middle path between relying on incomplete open data and the time and resource costs of manual digitizing.
A beta version of the portal has been in use with select government and AEC customers for several months. Free data samples are available for download.
"Access to comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date mapping data is a persistent challenge for many organizations, across all levels of government as well as in the private sector," said Jon Lipinski, President and Co-Founder at Ecopia. "Our online data portal puts high-quality, production-ready data directly in users' hands when they need it."
The platform's development received partial support from the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.
Ecopia is hosting biweekly office hours beginning April 14, offering demos and a chance to ask questions about the portal and available data. Users can request access and register for office hours at ecopiatech.com.
