mokunet
One shared, trusted map

One shared map of Hawaiʻi, built from 18 official datasets.

The shared map is built from 18 official sources kept by state and federal agencies. We assemble it separately and load it as a fixed, read-only copy — the platform reads that map but never changes it. Every project, program, research record, and compliance check in Mokunet ties back to a place through this one map, so everyone is working from the same ground.

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The map by the numbers

One shared map ties everything to Hawaiʻi's 33 traditional moku.

33
Moku Districts
19,720
Location Cells
40,000+
Places Mapped
18
Official Datasets

What the map contains

Every source dataset goes through the same process: its boundaries are aligned to a shared grid, stored as places, and linked to the moku that contains them. The result is one shared map where every place — a wetland, a school campus, a steward's parcel — can be reached from any moku through the same grid.

Layer
Source authority
Features
Moku districts
Traditional governance
33
Agricultural land (IAL)
State Land Use Commission
15 dockets
Agricultural baseline
Statewide Ag Land Use (2015)
5,024
Conservation reserves
DLNR
376
Government steward parcels
State/county land agencies
25,129
Wetlands (NWI)
USFWS
4,974
Parks
DLNR
70
Zoning districts
City & County of Honolulu
1,965
Public schools
DOE
288
Post-secondary campuses
UH + private institutions
85
Highways
HDOT (HPMS)
2,075
Trails
Nā Ala Hele
45
Rail alignment
HART
4 sections
Rail stations
HART
21
Opportunity zones
Federal designation
25
Career pathways
Workforce development
13 clusters
Environment monitoring
Research sites
3+
Land clusters
Community networks
1+

Every layer lines up

Every dataset is aligned to the same grid — cells about 0.74 km across. That shared grid is what lets information from completely different agencies line up against one another.

One grid, every layer

Moku boundaries, farmland, wetlands, schools, and highways all become collections of the same grid cells. Because every layer shares the same grid, a single cell can carry the full picture of everything that overlaps it.

Locations place themselves

When a project or producer enters the system with GPS coordinates, the map places those coordinates in the right cell, finds the moku that contains it, and picks up everything that overlaps — so you never have to assign a project to a district or note overlapping land designations by hand.

Read-only by design

The shared map is authoritative because it comes from authoritative sources.

No subscriber, administrator, or outside connection can move a boundary, reclassify farmland, or relocate a school. When a source agency updates its data — say, a new agricultural-land docket is approved — we rebuild the map from the updated source. That separation keeps decisions in the platform resting on official data the platform did not create.
The principle: the platform reads the map, but it never changes it. Everything subscribers do — projects, observations, indicators — attaches to the map without ever altering it.

33 moku districts across seven islands

Every place belongs to exactly one moku — the traditional district that holds responsibility for that land.

Oʻahu — 6

Kona, ʻEwa, Waiʻanae, Waialua, Koʻolaupoko, Koʻolauloa

Maui — 12

Lāhainā, Kāʻanapali, Wailuku, and 9 more

Hawaiʻi — 6

Kohala, Kona, Kaʻū, Puna, Hilo, Hāmākua

Kauaʻi — 5

Kona, Puna, Koʻolau, Haleleʻa, Nā Pali

Molokaʻi — 2

Koʻolau, Kona

Lānaʻi — 1

Lānaʻi

Niʻihau — 1

Niʻihau

More than a map

The map is more than a picture — everything on it is connected. From a question like “What water quality data exists near agricultural land in ʻEwa?”, the map can find the places involved and the records gathered there, each traceable to who contributed it.

As more project and observation data builds up, the goal is to let you ask questions like that in plain language and get answers straight from the map — that part is still in development.

Built from public, authoritative sources

Source agencies include:State Land Use CommissionDLNRUSFWSDOEHDOTHARTCity & County of HonoluluUniversity of Hawaiʻi
The shared map is the network's foundation. On top of it, your role and your place shape what you see and act on, and community knowledge — observations and local data — joins the map without changing it.