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Submit-ready Hawaii SIHP site forms in minutes, not days

Hawaii's State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD), within DLNR, maintains the Statewide Inventory of Historic Places (SIHP) and HICRIS; resources are assigned SIHP and HICRIS numbers through project review, survey, or inventory forms. FieldTap keeps your field records organized and export-ready for that submission.

Why state forms break every other tool

Every state has its own paper site form. Hawaii's is Hawaii SIHP site forms — a fixed PDF layout SHPD expects to receive exactly as published. Generic field tools give you two bad options: rebuild the form by hand in their form builder (and still retype results into the official PDF), or pay for a professional services engagement to digitize each form.

Either way, every revision the agency publishes restarts the cycle. CRM firms end up paying for software and still doing the typing.

FieldTap Report Builder

Import once. Map once. Done forever.

Report Builder is the only feature on the market that lets a CRM firm digitize a state's official PDF form themselves — no professional-services bill, no rebuilding the form by hand. Map the fields once and every record auto-exports a submit-ready SHPD PDF for the life of your firm.

1. Import the official PDF
Drop the SHPD site forms into Report Builder. No rebuilding the form by hand, no professional services engagement.
2. Drag-map fields once
Drag your FieldTap fields onto the PDF. Locations, attributes, photos, dates — once they are mapped, they auto-fill for every record going forward.
3. Auto-export forever
Every record in your project exports a fully-populated, submit-ready PDF in the official SHPD layout. No retyping. No reformatting.
4. Update when the agency does
When the agency revises the form, re-import the new PDF and remap any changed fields. Your records keep working.

Forms covered for Hawaii

FieldTap ships with Report Builder templates for the official Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division forms below. Use them as-is, customize them, or import your own variant.

Inventory Survey FormSIHP Site Record

The form documenting a site for the Statewide Inventory of Historic Places, assigned an SIHP number.

Survey ReportArchaeological Inventory Survey

The AIS report submitted to SHPD for review.

Location MapUSGS Quad Reference

Required map attachment locating the site with coordinates.

What SHPD reviewers expect

  • Resources are assigned SIHP and HICRIS numbers through project review, survey, or inventory forms — FieldTap supports placeholder numbers swapped on export.
  • The SIHP is maintained by SHPD and updated regularly — FieldTap exports records ready for that submission.
  • Coordinates must agree across the form, map, and any GIS deliverable — FieldTap generates all three from one record.
  • Section 106 review under the NHPA (and Hawaii's Chapter 6E historic preservation law) drives most Hawaii fieldwork; consistent records reduce revision cycles.

Hawaii SHPO FAQ

How does FieldTap fit Hawaii's SHPD workflow?

FieldTap is where you record sites in the field. Every record carries location, attributes, and GPS-tagged photos, organized and exportable, so completing inventory survey forms and AIS reports for SHPD is fast instead of a re-keying exercise.

Does FieldTap handle SIHP numbering?

Yes. Crews record with placeholder numbers; once SHPD assigns the SIHP/HICRIS number you update the record and exports refresh.

Does this work offline in remote Hawaii?

Yes. Recording, GPS, and photos run fully offline. Sync and export require connectivity.

Can we map a Hawaii site form PDF?

Yes. Report Builder accepts any PDF, including internal QA forms.

What about GIS deliverables?

Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV come from the same record as the PDF, so coordinates and attributes always agree.

Map Hawaii SIHP site forms once. Submit forever.

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