Historical photos show conditions when captured, not a live view. Coverage varies.
Explore Greater Victoria GIS, compare CRD aerial years, draw site boundaries, and screen solar potential using public data and adjustable assumptions.
A regional map explorer for Greater Victoria and the West Shore. Search for a place or coordinates, select a municipality, query available public GIS layers, switch street, satellite, terrain and topographic backgrounds, and request dated CRD aerial imagery. Optional contour, canopy and municipal-boundary overlays complement site drawing and a solar screening panel.
Homeowners, property researchers, planners and designers doing early map-based research. It is not an official municipal GIS portal, land survey or utility-locating service.
Location or optional browser geolocation, municipality, search radius, layer selections, map view, imagery year and opacity, drawn polygon corners, solar date and local time, sample object height, usable panel area, efficiency, performance ratio, projection years and electricity rate.
Available public map features and records, raster overlay previews, approximate drawn area, sun position, daylight and simple shadow estimates, forecast or modeled solar-weather summaries, indicative PV energy and electricity-value estimates, and CSV/GeoJSON vector-feature downloads.
An internet connection is required. CDN assets, OpenFreeMap, Esri, municipal/CRD GIS, Photon, Overpass, Open-Meteo and NASA POWER are external services; requests disclose relevant locations or map bounds to those providers. Service availability, rate limits, licensing, publication dates and geographic completeness vary. An empty layer is not proof that no feature exists. Municipality suggestions use place names or coarse proximity, not legal boundary verification. Portal links for Langford, Colwood, View Royal, Highlands and Metchosin do not mean every local dataset is connected. CRD imagery, contours and canopy layers are published snapshots and may fail or be unavailable outside their extent.
Solar and weather values are models, not site measurements. PV screening uses horizontal solar-resource data, user assumptions and simplified 0.5% annual degradation; roof pitch, orientation, terrain, snow, horizon and local shading are not modeled. Shadow length is a simple geometric estimate for the entered object height. Results are not engineering, planning, excavation or financial advice. Confirm current records, permits, utility locates and survey information independently. Session selections are not saved to an account and are cleared on reload.
No. Direct connectors and available CRD datasets differ by municipality and layer. Check the source and publication date, and use the official map link for confirmation.
The service may be unavailable, outside its coverage, incomplete or rate-limited. Aerial years are individual published datasets, not live satellite images.
No. Only loaded and enabled vector features are exported. Raster overlays, basemap imagery, solar estimates and the drawn study boundary are not included.
No. Use it for early research and obtain current official records, utility locates, professional surveys and a site-specific solar assessment before acting.
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