SERVE & PROCESS
Honua Server
Publish, query, edit, and process geospatial data through shared services and standard interfaces.
The runtime behind maps, applications, and analytical jobs.
Build across
the whole platform.
Server, SDKs, Console, and AI tools for geospatial applications and operations—with experimental mobile and field collection.
THE WHOLE PLATFORM
More than a server.
Build with SDKs, work in Console, connect an agent, or explore the field tools. Each component has its own role and release maturity. See what each component replaces →
AUTHOR & OPERATEPreview
Console & Studio
Manage data, services, jobs, and sharing in Console. Use Studio’s realtime editor alongside the shared AI conversation.
Studio is part of Console, not a separate application to launch.
BUILD & INTEGRATEPreview support
Developer SDKs
JavaScript / TypeScript for web applications; .NET and Python for backend services, analysis, and data pipelines.
Typed feature access, administration, and supported processing workflows.
ASSIST & AUTOMATE
Agents & command-line tools
Connect AI through MCP and use command-line tools to inspect services, prepare workflows, and propose operational changes.
Explicit permissions and separate approval for consequential changes.
BUILD FOR THE FIELDExperimental
Mobile SDK
.NET MAUI libraries for mobile field apps, GeoPackage storage, and connectivity-aware synchronization.
Pre-1.0 alpha. Client and server support determine the available field workflows.
COLLECT IN THE FIELDExperimental
Honua Collect
The field collection app built on the Mobile SDK: forms, offline capture, and synchronization with geospatial services.
Early development, not a GA field app. Android has verified workflows; other device targets remain unverified.
DO THE SPATIAL WORK
What you can do with Honua.
Start with the work: publish data, build maps, analyze, automate, and operate.
015 capabilities
Connect, import & publish
Create layers from existing database tables without copying data, or import files and services.
026 capabilities
Query & edit data
Find features, filter results, update records, and work with versioned edits.
0310 capabilities
Maps & spatial applications
Compose maps with AI, style layers, collaborate, and prepare print layouts.
0414 capabilities
Geoprocessing & analysis
Run spatial jobs, joins, buffers, clustering, density, and terrain analysis.
055 capabilities
Geocoding & routing
Locate addresses, reverse-geocode coordinates, and solve network routes.
067 capabilities
Imagery & multidimensional data
Work with cloud rasters, imagery services, mosaics, and multidimensional coverages.
- COG Serving
- Multidimensional Coverage (NetCDF/HDF5/Zarr)
- Temporal Raster Mosaic
- ImageServerPreview
- OGC API CoveragesPreview
- WCS 2.0.1
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077 capabilities
Terrain & 3D scenes
Query elevations, discover scenes, and publish 3D tiles and specialist scene data.
- Elevation Query
- 3D Tiles Scene ServingExperimental
- I3S Scene ServingExperimental
- Terrain-RGB TilesExperimental
- CityGML/BIM Scene IngestExperimental
- Scene CatalogExperimental
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- Point Cloud Scene IngestExperimental
0817 capabilities
Time, streams & alerts
Filter by time, follow feature changes, and send event notifications.
- Temporal Query Filtering
- Real-Time Feature Streams
- Enter/Exit Geofence TriggersPreview
- Dwell TriggerPreview
- Webhook DeliveryPreview
- Email DeliveryPreview
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092 capabilities
Field collection & offline
Collect data with online forms and synchronize disconnected field work.
106 capabilities
AI workflows
Discover data, ground requests, prepare plans, and execute reviewed actions.
115 capabilities
Platform operations
Manage services, monitor requests, and coordinate runtime and cache resources.
129 capabilities
Identity & extensibility
Connect identity providers, manage organizational access, and extend the server.
Preview and experimental functionality is labeled where stated in the referenced scope. Release notes ↗
CONNECT YOUR TOOLS
Standards & interfaces.
Work with spatial data from desktop GIS, web applications, backend services, and AI agents.
0113 services & endpoints
GeoServices REST (Esri REST)
Feature, map, imagery, geometry, processing, geocoding, routing, and scene services through familiar REST interfaces.
- FeatureServer
- MapServer
- ImageServerPreview
- GPServer
- GeometryServer
- GeocodeServer
- VectorTileServer
- NAServer / routing
- VersionManagementServerPreview
- SceneServer / 3D TilesExperimental
- Portal sharing & discovery
- Portal token issuance
- REST service directory
029 capabilities
OGC APIs
Feature access, maps, tiles, processing, and catalog discovery.
035 capabilities
OGC web services
Familiar service interfaces for desktop GIS and existing integrations.
045 capabilities
Developer & data APIs
Typed spatial access, agent tools, business intelligence, and asset catalogs.
WORK WITH YOUR DATA
Databases & warehouses.
Publish existing database tables as live layers without copying their data. PostGIS supports full read/write workflows; other providers have read-only or experimental scope, as shown below.
Spatial data, edits, query statistics, analytics, and native spatial output.
Serve geometry and geography tables from an existing database.
Embedded analytical and reference data without another database service.
Serve existing spatial tables through the provider’s query interface.
Oracle ↗
ExperimentalSDO_GEOMETRY support; use a non-Native-AOT build.
Amazon Redshift ↗
ExperimentalNative GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY through the warehouse provider.
Snowflake ↗
ExperimentalRead spatial warehouse tables; use a non-Native-AOT build.
Databricks ↗
ExperimentalRead from a SQL Warehouse through the Statement Execution API.
Experimental providers are separate from the supported read/query paths. Provider reference ↗
FILES, STREAMS & OBJECT STORAGE
Cloud-native formats. Familiar files.
See which formats you can import, register in place, produce, or request as query output.
Cloud-native feature data
Compact formats for analytical datasets and query results.
- GeoParquet File import · query output
- GeoArrow / Arrow IPC Query output · spatial columnar data
- FlatGeobuf File import · query output
Cloud imagery & tile archives
Publish imagery and tiles from files or object storage.
- COG / GeoTIFF Raster import · registered cloud tile sources
- PMTiles Archive · publish · serve with HTTP ranges
- MVT / TileJSON Vector tiles · tile source metadata
Multidimensional & scientific data
Register datacubes or convert scientific sources for coverage access.
- Zarr v2 / v3 Store registration · coverage subsets
- NetCDF4 / HDF5 URL registration · conversion to Zarr
- GRIB / GRIB2 URL registration · conversion to Zarr
NetCDF4, HDF5, and GRIB use the documented GDAL-to-Zarr path and require a reader-enabled build. Coverage release scope remains separate.
Vector & tabular files
Bring in familiar datasets and export through the documented file or query paths.
- GeoJSON File import · query output
- GeoPackage File import · file export
- Shapefile (ZIP) File import · file export
- CSV Coordinate / WKT import · file and query output
GPS, geometry & geodatabase files
Import tracks, interchange files, geometry text, and packaged databases.
- GPX File import
- KML / KMZ File import · map-service KML output
- WKT Geometry import
- File Geodatabase (.gdb.zip) Packaged file import
Query, map & image outputs
Choose the response format that fits your client or downstream workflow.
- JSON / Esri JSON / GeoJSON Feature-query responses
- Protobuf / PBF / Geobuf Binary feature responses
- GML / CSV Standards-based feature-query output
- PNG / JPEG Map images · georeferenced raster import with world files
Complete import and output matrix ↗ · Cloud-native workflows ↗
THE DETAILS ARE HERE TOO
Go deeper when you need to.
Search individual operations, review evidence, or build a shareable checklist for your evaluation.
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