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This page serves as the primary resource for editors of Hawaii. Review all the sections to better understand how the guidelines for this state might deviate from the overall USA or worldwide guidelines. If you have any comments or questions about this page or state refer to the community links below.
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Introduction
Hawaii is a part of the Southwest region, which includes the states and/or territories of:
Arizona / California / Colorado / Hawaii / Nevada / New Mexico / Utah.
Aloha to everyone interested in editing the Waze map for Hawaii! We look forward to working with new editors to help keep up with changes to the transportation system and points-of-interest across the state. Adding new editors who live in Maui, Kauai and Hawaii counties is an especially critical priority, as well as editors with access to military bases, but everyone is welcome — your contributions are needed.
However, it’s important that managers be able to contact you, so all editors will be required to have private messaging turned on.
Mapping resources
Before editing the maps in Hawaii, be sure to fully review and understand the editing manual.
The Waze user community follows the Waze etiquette guidelines discussed in the Wiki. Be sure to familiarize yourself with these guiding principals while editing the maps and this Wiki, as well as when communicating with other Waze users.
Oahu Parcel Map (Chrome not supported)
City and County of Honolulu GIS Basemap
Maui County GIS (limited function for Hawaii County
Kauai State Roads and Highways
Big Island State Roads and Highways
Federal Highway Administration
Rail Project Farrington Highway Closures
Community
The Waze forum is a great place to find answers to previously asked questions and also a place to ask new ones. Below are links to the forums specific to Hawaii.
- Hawaii section of Waze forum
- The Southwest region forum
- The USA section of Waze Forum
- The USA segment unlock requests
Area Managers for Hawaii can be found in the table below.
New editors should consider checking into the formal mentoring program available at no charge.
Editor community
Hawaii communication is now unified in the Waze Southwest Region Discord community. To join the group, click here, sign up, and say Hi : https://discord.gg/twxnqnU All editors are also recommended to join the US National community as well: https://discord.gg/WRq3tzV
Other community resources
There is also a Waze Hawaii Facebook page, but this is meant more as a channel for app changes for Wazers and general awareness.
See Hawaii/Community for guidance in Hawaii that may not be universal to all other states and territories.
Boat
“Boat is fine.” – Gil Disatnik, 4 February 2023
Cities and towns
One of the most common errors when editing the maps is when an editor creates a road and does not confirm the road by setting the city and road name (or stating it has none).
Duplicate cities can be caused by incorrectly named segments and should be corrected following the guidelines in the duplicate cities article.
Some states and territories manage a separate page on cities and towns to identify the specific city names that should be entered, and no others. For states that do not have a separate page to track the names, see this Wikipedia link and find the state or territory in question.
Major roads
Hawaii follows the general road naming and road type guidelines of the USA.
Functional Classification
Hawaii is following the Functional Classification (FC) system for the USA, according to the federal Functional Classification standards adopted by the state Department of Transportation. Please do not alter roadway types without consulting with a state manager.
Lock Levels
We observe the following minimum lock levels for Waze road types:
HAWAII STANDARDS| ROAD TYPE | LOCK LEVEL |
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| Freeway | 5 |
| Ramp | 5 |
| Major Highway | 4 |
| Minor Highway | 3 |
| Primary Street | 2 |
| All Others | 1 |
Note that these are minimums and, for protection, certain segments may be at higher lock levels.
Mile Markers/Mile Posts
In Hawaii, road closures are often reported by the Department of Transportation and the local Police Department at Mile Marker/Mile Post numbers because of the long stretches of country roads with minimal landmarks or intersections. The usage of Place Points is advantageous for editors in the case of closing roads for maintenance or accidents by allowing the Mile Marker/Mile Post to be searchable from inside the Waze Map Editor. If you find a Mile Marker/Mile Post on Waze Streetview that has not yet been placed in the map, please follow these steps to create one:
- Find the approximate area where the Mile Marker/Mile Post is on the map
- Add a transportation Place Point along the road where the Mile Marker/Mile Post exists
- Ensure that the category of the Place Point is Junction/Interchange
- Add the Primary Name of the point as [highway name] [highway number] MM ##. For instance, Mile Marker 31 on Piilani Hwy in Kaupō, Maui will have the Primary Name of “‘Piilani Hwy CR-31 MM 31’”. If you do not know the highway number, please ask for help to find the highway number via the Forum or the Hawaii Google Hangout.
- Add an alternate name with the abbreviation of Mile Post instead of Mile Marker for searchability i.e. “‘Piilani Hwy CR-31 MP 31’”
- Mile Markers/Mile Posts should be saved as editor level 4, if you cannot save it as level 4, please contact one of the State Managers to raise the level of the new Mile Marker/Mile Post via the Forum or the Hawaii Google Hangout
Local naming conventions
Hawaii uses HI-## for all state routes. When working on an area, if you encounter a road with the old State Hwy ## naming in either the principal or alternate name fields, please change that name to the HI-## format, or send a PM to a state manager to alert them. We are now discussing in the forum which segments of major state highways should have the HI-## in the principal field to enable the shield to display and for clarity to visitors using shielded maps, and which should retain their Hawaiian name because of local conventions.
Because most street and highway names are in the Hawaiian language, the editors are conducting a discussion in the forum about the use of diacriticals. The general practice now is to use street names without the diacriticals; the fonts in the editor currently don’t fully support them anyway (the kahako is not available). However, where street signage includes them, some names do appear with the 'okina, represented as an apostrophe.
U-turns
In Hawaii, U-turns on *two-way* Primary Street through Major Highway type roads may be enabled if it is explicitly allowed by signage. This is based on county ordinances, such as Section 15.8.4 of the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu (found here), which bars drivers from making a U-turn “upon any street in a business district, upon any highway with three or more lanes, or at any intersection where traffic is controlled by traffic signal lights, except as otherwise permitted by official signs and markings.”
Enabling U-turns even on streets where they may be legal has consequences on routing. This would be subject to changes in national guidance, but Hawaii editors should not enable them as a rule.
Special roads
Drivable roads
Hawaii follows the standard USA guidelines for all of the following special road types.
- Divided highways and roadways
- Carpool, HOV, Transit lanes
- Roundabouts and traffic circles
- Dead ends and culs-de-sac
- Toll roads
- Partial and scheduled restrictions
- Private installations and military bases
Non-drivable roads
Review the Wiki guidelines for non-drivable roads to ensure compliance with the general guidelines.
Guidelines that vary by state or territory
The following special roads are managed slightly uniquely in some states and territories. This state uses the following standard guidelines found in the Wiki.
Closures
When managing a section of roadway under construction or being closed for a major event, follow the Wiki guidelines on construction zones and Real time closures.
The Federal Highway Administration keeps a website indexing all states that can provide highway and construction project information. Go to the page, find your state, and check the links for the desired information.
Places
Hawaii follows the USA standard for Places. Do not deviate from the guidelines without first obtaining consensus to do so via the state forum linked on this page.
In Hawaii the street segment fronting the Place often has one of the Census Designated Place (CDP) names in the City field for help with navigation. This often automatically populates the City field of the Place file. However, the Place file should be edited to list the City as displayed on the website or other primary source, usually the postal address.
The Hawaii state managers have agreed to these variations from the national standards:
- Places shall be locked at level 3 once pertinent information has been added. Pertinent information includes: State, City, Street, House Number, Phone Number, Web Site (if available)
- Hospitals shall be locked at level 5.
- Police and fire stations will be area places (to display on the app map).
- Medical clinics without emergency facilities shall be categorized as “Doctor/Clinic”.
- Phone number format shall be (###) ###-####
- Place names must be capitalized.
Moderation standards
Please be aware of these guidelines before adding a new place in WME, or moderating a place update request (PUR).
Take the time to research all information regarding the place. Name, address, business website, phone number, etc. Check the appropriate “Services Offered” types.
If time is limited, you should at least enter at least a street address and lock it at 2 for most types of places (don’t do this for private/residence type). Doing this helps protect against future picture updates being simply accepted from “trusted updaters.” Most drivers do not edit so will always be considered Rank 1 in WME. Any update they submit to an existing place will be flagged for review by an editor.
Make sure any pictures submitted are usable. We reject photos with identifiable faces or license place numbers.
Basically, use your common sense: Is the photo helpful to the Wazer in recognizing that they are in the right place? Examples of some types of pictures that are unusable (and should thus be rejected) are:
- The inside of the business, or so close to the front door that you have to be at the front door to see it. The idea is to show it from far enough away that it gives an approaching driver an idea of what to look for.
- Close-up of drive-through menu.
- Upside down, blurry, rainy, fogged out, phone mount or part of car mostly blocking the view.
- A shot that is clearly just a “selfie” of the person taking the picture of him/herself in front of the place being added/updated.
- Nudity/obscenity, or otherwise inappropriate content.
Cameras
Not every camera-looking device at an intersection is a speed or red light camera. Generally speaking:
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a speed camera takes a photograph of a vehicle when it passes by the camera at too high a speed.
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a red light camera takes a photograph of a vehicle that enters an intersection after the light is red. In some areas, it takes the photograph when a vehicle is not clear of the intersection some period after the light turns red.
Be sure to know your cameras before accepting new camera reports.
When adding a camera, be sure to review the camera placement recommendations.
Laws regarding speed and red light cameras vary between the states and territories, so be sure to understand the details of camera legality in Hawaii.
There is a Red Light camera program to begin at the end of 2021. The State of Hawaii does not utilize Speed Cameras at this time.
To do list
Many states and territories keep an active list of pending or closed actions that need to be done in the state by the editors. All editors are welcome to contribute to the list of activities.
See Hawaii/To do for things ToDo in Hawaii.
Area Managers
The table below identifies the editors also designated as Area Managers or higher who are editing in Hawaii. If you have any questions, please consider contacting them directly as needed. If you are an Area Manager that covers Hawaii, or a USA Country Manager that does a lot of work in Hawaii, please add yourself to this list (alphabetical by username) in the correct rank section.
The editor who also serves as the Regional Coordinator for Hawaii is automatically listed at the top of the table. That editor may not be highly active in this state and therefore may not be listed separately in the table.
| Hawaii — Area, State, Country Managers, and Regional Coordinators | ||
| Regional Coordinator(s): [RC] ottonomy (PM [Help])  [ARC1] jemay (PM [Help]) [ARC2] tonestertm (PM [Help]) [ARC3] turbomkt (PM [Help]) [ARC4] ojlaw (PM [Help]) |
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| Username | Area Managed | Comments |
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| Country Managers (Southwest region) (Add to or edit Country and State sections of table) |
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| TheChrisK(6) |
Countrywide |     NWR ARC Based in Omaha, NE |
| State Managers (Southwest region) | ||
| Machete808(6) |
Hawaii | |
Nacron(5)  |
Hawaii | email  |
| KuniaKid(5) KuniaKid
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Hawaii | Where ever you go, there you are. |
| Area Managers (Add to or edit this section) |
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| Firebrand66® (?) | ⁃Island of Oahu⁃ | ※Defense Support to Civil Authorities※ |
long_xaing_ks(2)  |
Honolulu to Ko'olina | |
AquaZR1(3)  |
Kauai | Also AM in CA |
The following editors are also editing in the state and may be working towards an Area Manager position. Feel free to contact them for assistance in their respective areas.
| Other Area Editors (Add to or edit this section) |
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| Username | General Editing Area | Comments |
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| Lizton42(3) |
Big Island | |
| TheLocalCaffeineDealer(2) |
Oahu | Military Installations |
UH60SI(1)  |
Oahu, HI Military Installations | |
| mac0s9user(1) |
Kauai | |
| B-Rad17(1) |
Oahu, Kauai | |
| emc5blue(1) |
Honolulu | |
| TenaciousDizzle(1) |
West/Central Oahu, Hickam/Pearl Harbor | |
| georgem69(1) |
Urban Honolulu | |
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