Town of Waimea (Kamuela)

Notes on creating a 3D model of the small town of Waimea.

• USGS data availability is good, including relatively recent DRG, DLG, and 10m DEMs
• Aerial photo from the VTP Collection of Hawaii USDA/Emerge Tiles:
  • Kamuela: kamuela_rgb_edit1.zip (7.1 MB), JPEG with world file, in NAD83 UTM zone 5

• February 2006, Nino Walker writes:
  "I loaded the Waimea data into the VTP and manipulated it to run in Enviro.  Here are .JPGs demonstrating. (The redlines are flood zones, except the spurious one in the middle of PR 2020, white are proposed roads.)
  

• Extraction of building footprints from the Emerge aerial is still in progress.  As of February 2006, around 40% of the town is done.  The nominally 1-meter Emerge doesn't really have enough accuracy for the shape of the smaller buildings, so it is an approximate process at best.
• The site waimeaplan.org has great extensive planning info, but it doesn't have any specific geodata.  The usual State GIS site remains the most reliable central location for data.

• June 1, 2006: a traffic circulation study (3.2 MB pdf) was publicly presented by consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. (background questions for the study).  They collected some data, and assembled a small micro-sim of the traffic.  Is this data available?
  • Wayne Y. Yoshioka, P.E.
    Manager of Transportation Planning/Traffic Engineering, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.
    Honolulu, HI ph. (808) 531-7094, yoshiokaw@pbworld.com
  • Hong. Li, PhD, PE, PTOE
    Senior Transportation Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.
    Honolulu, HI Tel: 808-566-2211, LiH@pbworld.com
  • The county contact is Larry Brown from the planning dept LBROWN@co.hawaii.hi.us
  • Called Wayne on 9/7.  He confirmed that the micro-sim model is still preliminary.  The package they are using  is Synchro Studio SimTraffic from Trafficware. (see description of Synchro on the commercial software page, at the bottom).  The geometry was draped on the aerial approximately, not precisely or georeferenced.  There is no technical information available about this package on the company's site, so it's unclear whether exporting data from it is feasible. 

• Coordinate at center of town: -155.66885, 20.020445