This document summarizes the strategic plan and activities of the Honolulu Land Information System (Holis) department. Holis provides critical geospatial data and services to support business processes and decision making across the city. Key accomplishments in recent years include updating parcel and infrastructure data, producing maps, and developing web-based GIS interfaces. Holis aims to continue enhancing productivity through improved work processes, data management, and new technologies.

1. Mufi Hannemann, Mayor
Discovering Honolulu Data
Ken Schmidt, Administrator
Honolulu Land Information System
Department of Planning and Permiting

2. Information is a Critical Asset

3. A Critical Business Process

4. Mr. Know-It-All

6. Strategic Plan
Linking the Goals and Tactical objectives to the Individual Projects with
ability to define performance measures.
Increase Productivity
Easier Work Processes
Eliminate Time
Consuming Data Entry
Enhance Internet Permit
Application Program
IBPA Update
Phase 1 to 3

7. Information Business Components
Products and Services
Data
$
Financial
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Personnel
Hardware/Software

8. GeoSpatial Data
Geometric and Cartographic Features
107’
107’
Vectors
Topology Dimensions
Surveys
ABC
Networks
Images Annotation
CAD
Drawings
27 Main St.
3D Objects Attributes
Addresses
Terrain

9. Geo-Spatial Data
Everything is located
somewhere!
GIS is a visualization of
information at a location.

10. Holis FY07
Product and Services Statistics
New Parcel Geo-database (new data delivered and installed)
2,800 plat maps converted + 310 insets
180,095 lots
649,381 parcel dimension annotation
46,638 easement
15,501 land title lines
Storm Drain Update
32,864 new features added
Maps Produced
802 maps – 56.6% increase
Batch data update processing
4000 property owner updates a month
Aerial Imagery – 500 GB of digital aerial and satellite imagery installed
NGA
USI-Hawaii
Other – Ikonos, Digital Globe
New GIS Interfaces
City View Professional (ArcMap 9)
200 GIS Users throughout the City
CityView Web - beta

11. Holis FY07
Product and Services Statistics
POSSE Jobs Created POSSE Data Created
68,328 – FY06 3.390 M – FY06
62,770 – FY05 3.115 M – FY05
66,139 - FY04 3.282 M – FY04
67,910- FY03 3.370 M – FY03
55,675 – FY02 2.762 M – FY02
50,485 – FY01 2.505 M – FY01
Total = 371,307 jobs Total = 18,426,803 records

12. Honolulu Geo-Spatial Data
Geographic Categories, Themes, and Layers
Subdivision/Cadastral Base Maps
Tax Assessment Designations & Values
Land Ownership
Building Facilities and Addresses
Master Planning Designations
Regulatory Land Use Designations
Land Use & Activities
Socio-Economic & Demographic Data
Infrastructure & Utilities
Public Recreational Facilities
Health and Human Service Facilities
Topographic contours
Surface terrain models
Transportation Corridors/Address
Ranges
Flood and Natural Hazards
Natural and Environmental Resources

13. Honolulu Geo-Spatial Data
Key New Features
Parcel Views
Parcel History
Building Structures
Easements
Storm Drains
Hi-Resolution Imagery
NAD83 HARN

15. Business Products and Services
OMB - GeoSpatial technologies is Line of Business (LOB)

16. Geo-Data Maintenance and Updates
Reengineering Base Map maintenance operations.
Base Map needed for all City agencies and operations.

17. Critical Business Processes
Map Production
Essential to policy decision making.
Report, Presentation, Location maps.
Visualization of geographic information.

18. Business Products and Services
Geo-Project Development and Support
Geospatial Analysis
Spatial Analysis and Model Building
Geo-Statistics
Vital for good policy formulation and issue analysis

19. Project Plan
Federal and
State Data
Sharing Utility and
Private and
Infrastructure
Public
Cooperatives
Partnerships
City GIS Aerial Imagery
Steering GIS Coordination and Elevation
Flood
Committee Data
Enterprise Zones
Parcel and
Architecture Basemap
Integration Maintenance
Regulatory and
ArcGIS Land Use
Upgrades and Technology GeoData Management
Infrastructure and Maintenance Street
Installs
Addressing
Public Safety
and Critical
GIS Server Facilites
Upgrades and
Storm Drain
System
Updates
Administration
GeoProducts and Services Tax Plat Building and
E911
Automation Facility Data
Emergency Map
Response Production
Interface
CityView 9
CIP ArcIMS
City GIS Web
interface
Site

20. Holis FY08
Product and Services Statistics
POSSE Products
HonLINE
18% of Building Permits issued on-line (over Number of On-Line Building
200) Permits Issued by Month
$21,767 revenue/month 300
147 manhours saved in 1 month
Web Site Enhancements 250
1.8 M hits per month
ALL of Building Permit applications submitted 200
on-line
#of OBP's
Over $16M revenues from permits. 150
S
GISWRs
100
Work Requests - 450
Data Maintenance – 341 Completed 50
Map Production - 802
Other Projects Completed 0
Jan-07 Feb-07 Mar-07 Apr-07 May-07 Jun-07 Jul-07 Aug-07 Sep-07 Oct-07 Nov-07 Dec-07 Jan-08 Feb-08

21. Tao of Pooh
Plans Change.
Things work out in the end.
Small efforts working together make
large contributions.
Realize sometimes you make mistakes.
Wu Wei

22. Geospatial Data Availability
Go to http://gis.hicentral.com
Various data freely available for download
Nightly updates for parcel, zoning, streets,
and sewer data files.
Key layers have been converted to NAD83
HARN (finally!)

23. Face Page
Interactive
Display
Data
Downloads

25. Face Page
Interactive
Display
Data
Downloads

27. readme contents

28. Cadastral Data Tables
Updated Weekly
Asmtgis – Land/building assessed value and
exemption (summary)
Asmtpitt - Land/Building assessed value and
exemption (sub-totaled by land use classification
‘splits’)
Ownmlt – Ownership records (multiple)
Owndat – Ownership records
Legdat – Parcel legal area and unit number
Siteaddress – situs address assigned at time of
permit

29. Table Details
ASMTGIS
This table downloaded from BFS Real Property Assessment on a weekly schedule.
Real Property Assessment Value/Exemption Table. This table contains the total (summary)
values for assessment and exemption.
ASMTPITT
Real Property Assessment Tax Class (Pitt) Code Table. May contain more than 1 record on
a parcel where a parcel has 2 or more distinct Tax class codes. In this case, the assessed
values and areas will not be the total value but a sub value determined for that particular tax
code area.
See ASMTGIS for total (summary) values for assessment and area on a parcel.
OWNDAT
This table downloaded from BFS weekly. It contains the first recorded owner on the parcel.
There should be one record for every parid. See ownmlt table for other owners.
OWNMLT
This table downloaded from BFS Real Property Assessment on a weekly schedule. It
contains additional owners where more than one is listed in
the deed for the parcel. Does not contain first recorded owner. See OWNDAT for first
recorded owner.
LEGDAT
This table downloaded from BFS Real Property Assessment on a weekly schedule.
Legal Data Table. This table contains the unit number and total legal area for the Parcel.
SITEADDRESS
This table is composed of building addresses maintained by CCH DPP. It is downloaded
from the Posse Permit system on a weekly schedule.

32. It takes people to create knowledge