Click on the link above. It should work I just tested it.
If you want to track santa in ATAK head to https://www.ninehilltech.com/ and download their Santa tracker for ATAK. After download use the import manager in ATAK and voila. Amaze the little ones in your life or even some adults!
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TAK Fans,
The ESRI ArcGIS plugin is finally on https://tak.gov
Now you can get all that arcgis onlione data that your agency may have on a server thats perhaps password protected (If you have a NIFC account for example) or even open source stuff like traffic that ESRI hosts for free.
Not everything renders perfectly but its a great start. Its still in beta. Here is a shot of traffic layer.
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More news that I forgot to mention. The new gui is out in 4.5 but all the guts are still there just laid out a little different in the toolbar.
Im playing around with an FTP server thats hooked to my google drive so you no longer would have to go to http://maps.takserver.us and download a data package and go to import manager to get it into atak. With the cloud/ftp plugin for atak you can go right to my google drive directory. It will download and import any data you choose right into ATAK eliminating many steps. I have a 7 day free trial so for you tak geeks give it a try and let me.know what ya think. You will need the plugin from tak.gov. once you have that import this pref file into atak and you will have all the stuff you need to browse my google drive. The name.of it is FIRIS for now as I was showing the firis team how this could be leveraged to share their geospatial videos to tak users without the need of a takserver.
But im gonna have to make you go to http://maps.takserver.us one more time to get the firis.pref file. Download and import.
Made a video of how it all works.
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Made a short video on geospatial video in ATAK and what its all about. We wont all always have links to aircraft but its worth knowing what can be done with it. This could be from a small quad copter, a helicopter, fixed wing or an MQ-9. ATAK handles it all the same if the metadata is sent with the video. If you want to see what this is like for your self in ATAK. I have a couple videos you can download and play in ATAK for yourself. You can either go to http://maps.takserver.us or go through the Cloud/FTP plugin and browse to a folder called Video. I have two files in there. One is called Truck.ts which is just a video file and is what your watching in the video. Once you get it in ATAK open the video player and search for “Truck” and hit play. To center you map on the video hit the little icon that looks like an X, if you look its actually 4 little arrows pointing to a dot but anyway I dont know what the heck the icon is called so best description is an X. You can follow along in my video and can see how this all works. The other file i have in the Video folder is a DataPackage named DP-Thomas Fire. It contains both a video and the ops map from the Thomas Fire that corresponds with the date the video was taken. You can get to both the video and map from the DataPackage tool or just go to the video player for the video. Whats cool about this is you can see video of a fire in reference to an ops map. Videos are cool dont get me wrong but if you have ask where is that then your without probably the biggest contextual part of the puzzle. If you have questions let me know.
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Mojave Train Derailment video is up and available via the Cloud/FTP Plugin
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Made a follow up video on what the benefits are flying a UAS in ATAK. Kind of scratching the surface but you get the highlights. Full context on location of video, remote gimbal control and augmented reality of TAK users and objects.
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Have an idea of an ftp sever that i will get hosted for atak use. I want to take the last published ops map from.historical fires and put it on there.
How would you all want it organized?
GACC>UNIT_FOREST>Incidents
GACC>UNIT_FOREST>Year>incidents
GACC>Year>Unit_Forest>incidents
Also how far back should I go?
Was thinking 15 years
GACC-YEAR-UNIT-INCIDENT
Like the NIFC FTP site so the naming convention is the same.
15yr gets most but not all the “Game Changer” fires from 2003 in R5
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Little update -
I have agency funding for the FTP site for ATAK. I am working out a few little things for a friendly URL and hope to have that fixed this next week. I have already slowly been bringing R5 historical maps over from the FTP and renaming them.
If you are an ATAK user you have no doubt see the change in the GUI in 4.5. I just finished updating my training ppt to reflect these changes. You might see some agency specific stuff in there for some recent training but overall this is pretty universal. I added a bunch more stuff like how to use fire area survey tool and how data sync works if your attached to a TAK-Server with that capability turned on.
I converted the ppt to PDF and is in the training folder at maps.takserver.us
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I broke up the ppt a bit and removed the plugins
Now there is a basics and I added some more functionality to it and separate ppts for the plugins. Also put in bookmarks.
If you want the raw ppts let me know and I can get them to you as well.
Still in the training folder at maps.takserver.us
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Here is a cool feature of ATAK that actually was born from us in wildland fire. CO MMA is in TX mapping I can see they have their camera on mapping we can assume they are taking the thermal camera right along the fire edge. In ATAK I can turn on a breadcrumb that is set off the center frame of the camera or SPI [sensor point of interest]. We can make our own live Map while they trace the fire.
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Made a little video on it.
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iTAK will be on the app store on April 7th.
I am hoping this is a great start to bringing in more users the TAK environment.
iTAK has a long way to go to catch up to ATAK however most of the things like tracking, sharing points, polygons etc it will do.
I guess I change the name of this thread to TAK Information
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AJ, that’s great news about the App! 
Great news AJ
Will there be “easy” communication between the IPhone & Android environment via Bluetooth?
“Great news AJ
Will there be “easy” communication between the IPhone & Android environment via Bluetooth?”
Yes, same question. This is one thing that Ehoss and I have encountered difficulties with Avenza between iPhone and android.
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There will be soon. Ditto has bridged the Android to iOS communications over bluetooth and they have an ATAK plugin. I am sure they will be able to have something with iTAK so you can share data without a server or LAN/WAN. Check out this video in this linked in post. Adam Fish on LinkedIn: #usaf #peertopeer #realtimedata | 27 comments
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If you ever want to deploy your own tak server there is FreeTAK Server. It does quite a bit. Their videos walk you though everything.
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