Your rights of way, in order and at hand
Your trails cross a farm, a woodlot, municipal land. Every crossing depends on an agreement, often signed years ago and filed in a binder. Sentinel keeps each landowner's record, shows on the map who owns every kilometre of trail, and warns you before an agreement comes to an end.
What is landowner management in Sentinel?
It is the register of the land your trails cross. Each landowner has a record: their contact details, the type of agreement that gives you access (right of way, registered easement, lease or verbal agreement), its dates, its conditions and the signed documents. Their land is outlined on the map, and Sentinel works out which stretches of trail belong to them.
- Replaces
- The binder of agreements, the spreadsheet of end dates and the hand-annotated map only one person knows how to read.
- Where it happens
- On the web, under Trails → Landowners, on the Community and Pro plans. Reminders also reach your phone and your inbox.
One agreement, from the kitchen table to the trail
At Gilles's kitchen table, Marie gets the right-of-way renewal signed, ready to attach to his record. 
At the club office, Marie outlines Gilles's land on the map: the trails that cross it take on his colour. 
A month before another agreement ends, the reminder reaches Marc's phone in the middle of his trail rounds.
All your agreements in one place, not in a binder
Each landowner has a record: who they are, how to reach them, the agreement that gives you access, its dates and what they ask in return, such as closing the trail during hunting season or a call before any work. The signed agreement is attached as a PDF. The day the club's coordinator changes, nothing leaves with them.
- Right of way, registered easement, lease or verbal agreement
- Signed agreements as PDFs, attached to the record
- Contact details limited to the members you choose
You know who owns every kilometre of trail
Outline each landowner's land on the map: Sentinel cuts your trails at its boundary and counts everyone's kilometres. Two neighbouring properties share the same boundary without ever overlapping, and a stretch that already has an owner never changes hands without your say. An imported trail or a corrected track finds its landowner on its own.
- Land outlined in a few clicks, trails cut to the metre
- Stretches without an agreement stand out
- New trails find their landowner on their own
No agreement slips through the cracks
Sentinel lets you know thirty days before an agreement ends, then on the day itself: in the app, on your phone and by email. You have time to call the landowner and renew, instead of finding out in the spring that the crossing is closed.
- A reminder 30 days before, then on the day
- In the app, as a push notification and by email
- The list shows what is coming due at a glance
Before the work starts, everyone knows whose land it is
Each trail's page shows the land it crosses, stretch by stretch, with the landowner and their agreement. Whoever plans a work day knows whose land they will be on and, in one click, what the landowner asks: a call before cutting, staying out during hunting season.
- The land crossed, from the start of the trail to its end
- One click opens the landowner's record and their conditions
- Visible only to members who are allowed to see it
Before you add your landowners
Which plans include landowners?
The Community and Pro plans. The trial, on the Pro plan, includes them too.
Who can see landowners' contact details and agreements?
Only members whose role lets them view landowners. Contact details are personal information: keep that permission for managers. Signed documents stay private and open through a temporary link, never a public address.
Do I have to draw every stretch of trail by hand?
No. You outline the land, and Sentinel cuts every trail that crosses it, to the metre, for every activity. A trail imported into that land later goes to the right landowner on its own, and a corrected track is counted again.
How am I reminded that an agreement is ending?
Thirty days before it ends, then on the day itself: with a notification in the app, a push notification on the phone and an email. Everyone picks their channels in their notification settings. Reminders go to members who can manage landowners.
Do landowners show up in the public app?
No. The register, the outlined land and the agreements stay within your team; your visitors see none of it.
How it's done, step by step
The step-by-step articles for this feature will be published on launch day, with Sentinel 3.5.0.
Get your agreements in order before next season
Landowners, their agreements and their land on the map, with a reminder before every end date. On the Community and Pro plans.