Lead Investigators: Dr. Richard Bordner (anth/geog.) and Candice Sakuda (service learning); Chaminade University of Honolulu
Goal of the Old Hawai’i Project:
To embed Pre-contact Hawaiian and Historic Period (defined as 1800-1959) place names, old photographs, old maps and traditional place-based stories from a number of publicly-available sources into Google Earth for public education. Most of the data acquisition and input will be done by Chaminade University students as part of service learning projects for various courses.
To date [Spring 2016] the emphasis has been on traditional Hawaiian place names, archaeological and ritual sites throughout the islands. USGS maps from 1940 have been used as a baseline source for Hawaiian place names. Initial input is from a number of sources such as Sterling and Summers Sites of O’ahu (1933); Summers’ Sites of Maui (1978); Thrum’s Annuals 1878-1933 (2006); Reinecke’s Survey of Hawaiian Sites from Kalahuipua’a, South Kohala to the Ka’u Line (2008); Emory’s Lanai (1924); and the various Bishop Museum Island surveys from the 1930’s. All named locations are checked with Pukui & Elbert’s Place Names of Hawai’i (1974) and Clark’s Hawai’i Place Names (2002). Final decisions on spelling and orthography are based on Andrews Hawaiian Dictionary (1857). We will also input sites from other map sources (such as Honolulu Fire Maps from 1880-1915) and scans from old photographs advertisements from various sources.
The current Old Hawaii Google Earth File is available for download.
Click below for link to file (large file, 80+mg)
HOW TO VIEW:
You must have a copy of Google Earth installed on your machine.
Download the kmz file, and then make sure you know where it is on your machine.
Open Google Earth, at the menu choose “open file”. Find your kmz download, and open it in Google Earth. DO NOT TRY TO OPEN IT DIRECTLY–WON’T WORK.
Go to one of the islands, you should now see a number of purple place names–click on one and you will see directly some information. Rick click and you will see more detailed information.
This is an ongoing project–as we get new material into the map, we will update the kmz file here to the most recent version.