trapline_areas

Find the identifier of the registered trapline area that contains a point (lat, lon) in British Columbia, from the province's Traplines of British Columbia layer on DataBC (Open Government Licence - British Columbia; 2,623 areas on 24 Oct 2026), read live. Returns the layer's area identifier only (for example TR0738T005) for up to 5 areas. It does not return who holds a trapline, any boundary, area or length, and it is not a right to trap, to be on the land, or to have access. The areas belong to individual licensed trappers: do not use this to locate or identify a trapper. Point lookups are limited by this server's request budget and per-client limits; repeated points could in principle list areas, so it is not for mapping them. For the holder, rights or conflicts contact the regional wildlife office or FrontCounter BC.

Cost: 3 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• lat (number, required): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, required): min -140, max -113

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/trapline_areas \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"lat":47.5,"lon":-140}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool trapline_areas with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"trapline_areas","arguments":{"lat":47.5,"lon":-140}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.