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This catalog lists what Honua provides. Choose the capabilities your team uses to build a shareable view and a rough edition estimate. If a specific route is not yet implemented or a protocol has a long-tail exception, its row says so.

The catalog

Generated from the current Honua Server capability matrix · 2026-08-20 · machine-readable catalog.

ControlPlane

1 capability
ControlPlane capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

General administrative CRUD surfaces (connections, metadata, services, tenants, users, roles, configuration) with no dedicated entitlement of their own.

AI

6 capabilities · 5 with a live demo
AI capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Agent-initiated changes run through a validation layer — planned, dry-run, validated, with a pre-change snapshot/backup gate before apply (spec apply, NL grounding mutations, workflow generation, and MCP execute tools).

Enterprise

Human-in-the-loop approval, policy-scoped agent permissions, and immutable audit for agent-initiated operations.

Pro

Ground natural-language turns into validated spec mutation plans.

Community

Discover, search, and query Honua through MCP and the agent read surface without a license.

Pro

Apply executable specs and submit MCP plan execution jobs from agentic tooling.

Community

Read-only retrieval of executable spec artifacts by content hash. Applying a spec plan remains Pro-gated (ai.spec-apply).

Alerts

4 capabilities · 2 with a live demo
Alerts capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Trigger alerts when features remain inside a zone for a configured duration.

Pro

Trigger alerts when features enter or exit geofence zones.

Pro

Background worker for evaluating geofence rules against feature changes.

Enterprise

Trigger alerts based on attribute threshold conditions.

Analytics

10 capabilities · 2 with a live demo
Analytics capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Buffer features by a fixed distance and dissolve or aggregate per group.

Pro

Server-side DBSCAN and K-Means clustering with optional cluster hulls.

Community

Store and retrieve spatial-analysis artifacts. The analytics compute operations themselves (clustering, spatial join, etc.) remain Pro-gated.

Pro

Hex or square grid density (heatmap) binning over a filtered subset.

Pro

Determine terrain visibility between an observer and target over the elevation surface.

Community

Retrieve generated analysis reports.

Pro

Intersect a vertical slice plane with the elevation surface and return cross-section metadata.

Pro

Cross-layer spatial join with intersects/contains/within/dwithin predicates.

Pro

Compute solar position from date/time/location and cast the shadow extent against the elevation surface.

Pro

Compute the radially-sampled visible area around an observer over the elevation surface.

Caching

2 capabilities
Caching capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

HTTP response caching with tag-based invalidation.

Pro

Redis-backed distributed cache for multi-node deployments.

Channels

7 capabilities
Channels capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Deliver alert notifications via AWS Simple Notification Service.

Enterprise

Deliver alert notifications via Azure Event Grid.

Enterprise

Aggregate and deliver batched alert summaries.

Enterprise

Deliver alert notifications via email.

Enterprise

Deliver alert notifications to Slack channels.

Enterprise

Deliver alert notifications to Microsoft Teams.

Pro

Deliver alert notifications via webhook HTTP callbacks.

Collaboration

1 capability
Collaboration capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Collaborative saved-map session operations (comments, activity, shared editing coordination).

Demo

1 capability · 1 with a live demo
Demo capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Non-sellable demo/showcase endpoints used for product demonstrations.

Discovery

1 capability · 1 with a live demo
Discovery capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Advertise the server's capability manifest for SDK/agent discovery (#1186).

DisasterRecovery

4 capabilities
DisasterRecovery capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Scheduled PostgreSQL base backups plus WAL archiving enabling point-in-time recovery.

Enterprise

Backup and restore Redis cache state so warm cache contents survive a regional failover.

Enterprise

Active-passive failover playbooks driven by automated health checks against the primary serving surface.

Enterprise

Track recovery time and recovery point objectives and report recovery readiness, last successful backup, and restorable point.

Editing

2 capabilities · 1 with a live demo
Editing capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Named gdb versions with isolated edits, reconcile/post back to DEFAULT, and gdbVersion-scoped editing/querying over the GeoServices VersionManagementServer.

Documented exceptions: VersionManagementServer (branch versioning) has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Pro

Create, update, and delete features through the Esri GeoServices FeatureServer write surface — applyEdits, addFeatures, updateFeatures, deleteFeatures, and calculate.

Enrichment

1 capability
Enrichment capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Register and manage third-party data-enrichment dataset sources.

FieldOps

2 capabilities
FieldOps capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Read and submit online form packages. Disconnected/offline sync is Pro-gated separately by fieldops.offline-sync.

Pro

Use disconnected field sync, form offline policy discovery, GeoServices replica/GeoPackage delta sync, and FieldCollection cursor/change exchange.

Geocoding

4 capabilities · 3 with a live demo
Geocoding capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Geocode multiple addresses in a single request.

Pro

Automatic failover between geocoding providers on error.

Community

Convert a freeform address to coordinates using configured providers.

Community

Convert coordinates to a nearest-address match using configured providers.

Identity

8 capabilities
Identity capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Custom claim-to-role mapping and identity governance for OIDC providers.

Enterprise

Native client-certificate (mTLS) authentication: trust profiles, issuer/chain validation with CRL/OCSP revocation, and certificate-to-principal mapping.

Pro

Single-provider OpenID Connect authentication with Azure AD, Google, Okta, Auth0, or generic OIDC.

Enterprise

Configure multiple OIDC identity providers in one deployment.

Community

Expose the read-only /sharing/rest Portal facade (info, portals/self, search, content/items) so Esri clients can discover Honua content as portal items.

Documented exceptions: Portal Sharing has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Expose POST/GET /sharing/rest/generateToken so Esri clients can authenticate against Honua-secured /rest/services.

Enterprise

SAML 2.0 service-provider metadata, assertion consumer, and single-logout endpoints.

Enterprise

User/group provisioning through the SCIM 2.0 protocol surface.

Import

3 capabilities
Import capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Import geospatial data from file uploads (GeoJSON, Shapefile, GeoPackage).

Enterprise

Import layers from GeoServer REST API.

Enterprise

Import layers from ArcGIS REST services.

Ops

2 capabilities · 1 with a live demo
Ops capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Liveness/readiness health-check endpoints.

Community

Metrics and monitoring surfaces for operational visibility.

Extensibility

1 capability
Extensibility capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Register compile-time, AOT-safe server plugins (custom feature validators and pre/post-edit hooks) discovered and gated at startup.

Printing

2 capabilities · 2 with a live demo
Printing capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Use full print layout templates beyond MAP_ONLY.

Pro

Export print jobs as PDF files.

Process

2 capabilities · 2 with a live demo
Process capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Submit and poll geoprocessing tasks through the Esri GeoServices GPServer surface. Print/export-specific tasks are gated by printing.* entitlement keys.

Documented exceptions: GPServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Submit and poll jobs through OGC API - Processes.

Raster

5 capabilities · 2 with a live demo
Raster capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Serve COG files directly from S3/Azure via HTTP range requests.

Pro

Configure cloud storage connections for direct raster serving.

Pro

Register and serve cloud-hosted NetCDF4/HDF5/Zarr datacubes as multidimensional coverages (OGC API Coverages / WCS / ImageServer multidimensional).

Pro

Select raster mosaics by acquisition timestamp for time-series imagery.

Community

Serve Terrain-RGB encoded elevation tiles.

Routing

1 capability · 1 with a live demo
Routing capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Solve multi-stop routes with the configured routing engine (MCP honua_solve_route and future gated surfaces).

Documented exceptions: NAServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Scene

3 capabilities
Scene capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Enterprise

Ingest CityGML building models into a servable Building Scene Layer 3D Tiles tileset with per-feature discipline / sub-layer semantics.

Community

Discover published 3D scene layers through the scene catalog surface.

Enterprise

Ingest LAS point clouds into a servable 3D Tiles point tileset preserving per-point classification, intensity, and RGB.

Serve

24 capabilities · 22 with a live demo
Serve capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Community

Serve published 3D Tiles scene layers through the SceneServer surface. Scene ingest (CityGML/point cloud) is Enterprise-gated separately.

Community

Query elevation profile and point-value surfaces. Sun/shadow, slice, line-of-sight, and viewshed analytics are Pro-gated separately.

Community

Query and read features through the Esri GeoServices FeatureServer surface (query, metadata, related records, domains, shared templates).

Documented exceptions: FeatureServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Discover GeocodeServer service and layer metadata. Batch geocode execution is gated by the geocoding.batch entitlement key (Enterprise); forward and reverse geocode execution are Community (#2981).

Documented exceptions: GeocodeServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Server-side geometry operations (project, buffer, simplify, union, and related utilities) through the Esri GeometryServer surface.

Community

Serve raster imagery and coverage metadata through the Esri GeoServices ImageServer surface.

Documented exceptions: ImageServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Serve map images, identify, and export through the Esri GeoServices MapServer surface.

Documented exceptions: MapServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Discover the GeoServices REST catalog root and service-directory info.

Documented exceptions: Catalog / REST Info has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Serve Esri vector tile services through the GeoServices VectorTileServer surface.

Documented exceptions: VectorTileServer has documented long-tail exceptions; see the GeoServices operation matrix.

Community

Serve published I3S scene layers Esri clients consume directly.

Community

Query and edit features through the OData v4 protocol surface.

Community

Serve coverage data through OGC API - Coverages.

Community

Query environmental data resources through OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval.

Community

Read and query collections/items through OGC API - Features. Mutation is Community via the shared edit pipeline (distinct from the Pro FeatureServer write gate).

Community

Render maps through OGC API - Maps.

Community

Search and retrieve catalog records through OGC API - Records.

Community

Serve vector and raster tiles through OGC API - Tiles.

Community

Query sensor observation data through OGC SensorThings API v1.1.

Community

Search and browse spatiotemporal asset catalogs through the STAC API.

Community

Serve Mapbox Vector Tiles, TileJSON descriptors, and PMTiles archives.

Community

Serve coverage data through WCS 2.0.1.

Community

Query and read features through WFS 2.0.

Community

Serve map images through WMS 1.3 (GetMap, GetFeatureInfo, GetCapabilities).

Community

Serve pre-rendered tile pyramids through WMTS 1.0.

StaticMap

3 capabilities · 2 with a live demo
StaticMap capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Render static map images at 150 and 300 DPI.

Pro

Render static map images up to 4096x4096 pixels.

Pro

Render up to 100 markers and 500 path vertices on static maps.

Streaming

1 capability · 1 with a live demo
Streaming capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Subscribe to WebSocket and SSE feature-change streams with filters and replay cursors.

Styling

3 capabilities · 1 with a live demo
Styling capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Style suggestions based on field analysis and classification.

Community

Enhanced geometry-aware default styles for published layers.

Community

Read and manage styles through OGC API - Styles (Part 1).

Temporal

5 capabilities
Temporal capabilities: edition, summary, exceptions, and links
CapabilityEditionWhat it doesLinks
Pro

Capability flag for SDK/admin TimeSlider and playback integration.

Community

Expose timeInfo, dedicated extent endpoint, and OGC time dimension metadata for time-aware layers.

Community

Filter feature queries by a bounded or open-ended time range.

Pro

Count features per time bucket using calendar or fixed bins for animation frame planning.

Pro

Filter vector tile requests to a bounded time range via the time parameter.

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