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Connect QGIS or ArcGIS Pro in five minutes.

A live Honua demo server runs at demo.honua.io, seeded with public Maui datasets (zoning, buildings, roads, flood hazard, hillshade). Every endpoint below answers anonymously — paste a URL into your desktop client and you are looking at Honua-served layers before your coffee cools.

What this is and is not: the demo server is a shared, best-effort evaluation instance — not a production SLA, and not a substitute for verifying your own workflows operation-by-operation against the compatibility matrix. Client behavior differs by client version; record what you test.

These protocols are not only published — they are exercised: recorded CI interop lanes run a desktop QGIS lane against WMS, WMTS, WFS, and OGC API Features, and a desktop ArcGIS lane against FeatureServer and MapServer. The dated lane records live on each capability's evidence page — for example WMS and FeatureServer.

Map of west and central Maui rendered from the demo server's zoning dataset: parcel and district boundaries drawn as blue outlines over a light-blue island fill. — A real render from the demo server: the *maui-zoning* dataset drawn by the static map endpoint at demo.honua.io/static/maui-zoning/bbox/-156.7,20.6,-156.2,21.05/800x600.png ↗ — the same rendering pipeline behind the WMS endpoint below. This copy was fetched on 2026-08-09 and committed to the site (this page's security policy only loads same-origin images); follow the link to re-render it live and compare.

Paste-ready endpoints

Live demo endpoints by protocol
Protocol	URL to paste
WMS 1.3.0	`https://demo.honua.io/ogc/services/maui-zoning/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities`
WMTS 1.0.0	`https://demo.honua.io/rest/services/maui-zoning/MapServer/WMTS/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml`
WFS 2.0	`https://demo.honua.io/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities`
OGC API Features	`https://demo.honua.io/ogc/features/`
WCS 2.0 (coverage)	`https://demo.honua.io/ogc/services/maui-hillshade/wcs?SERVICE=WCS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities`
GeoServices REST root	`https://demo.honua.io/rest/services`
FeatureServer (editing-capable surface)	`https://demo.honua.io/rest/services/maui-buildings/FeatureServer`
Vector tiles	`https://demo.honua.io/rest/services/maui-basemap/VectorTileServer`
STAC	`https://demo.honua.io/stac`
OData	`https://demo.honua.io/odata/`
Live API console	`https://demo.honua.io/docs`

QGIS

WMS / WMTS: in the Browser panel, right-click WMS/WMTS → New Connection…, paste the WMS or WMTS URL above, then expand the connection and drag a layer (for example maui-zoning) onto the map.
WFS / OGC API Features: right-click WFS / OGC API Features → New Connection… and paste either the WFS GetCapabilities URL or the OGC API Features URL — QGIS handles both through the same connection type. Feature layers load with attributes you can identify, filter, and export.
GeoServices REST: right-click ArcGIS REST Servers → New Connection… and paste https://demo.honua.io/rest/services to browse the same datasets through the Esri-compatible surface.

ArcGIS Pro

WMS / WMTS: Insert ribbon → Connections → Server → New WMS Server (or New WMTS Server), paste the matching URL above, leave credentials empty, and add layers from the new server connection in the Catalog pane.
FeatureServer: use Add Data → Data From Path and paste https://demo.honua.io/rest/services/maui-buildings/FeatureServer/0 to load the buildings layer directly, with attribute queries served by Honua's GeoServices REST surface.
Coverage caveat: ArcGIS Pro exercises many operations per workflow; supported operations are tracked per client in the client compatibility matrix. If an operation misbehaves, that matrix is the first place to check whether it is a known gap.

Verify what you tested

A five-minute connection proves the wire protocol, not your whole workflow. When you evaluate seriously: note the client version, the operations you ran (identify, filter, edit, print), the authentication flow, and compare against the Esri→Honua compatibility matrix and capability catalog — each row links dated evidence.

Prefer a local server with your own data? The ten-minute quickstart runs Honua beside PostGIS with Docker Compose — no license key, no signup, no phone-home. Working in a browser instead? Open the runnable samples gallery.

Something not answering? The demo instance is redeployed periodically. Ask in GitHub Discussions ↗ if an endpoint is misbehaving.