Hi all, schools out for the rest of my life now and as promissed Im going to look for a day sometime this month when things calm down to do a webinar on ATAK. Until then there are tons of videos published right on youtube on how to use the tool. I have loaded DTED for CA, AZ, CO and WY on to the google drive. DTED is digital terrain elevation data, it gives you that 3D view in ATAK. There is a video tutorial in the youtube site on how to import this data into ATAK. I am still uploading the files so give it some time for the DTED files to show up. I also made a tinyurl to get to all the data. I will continue to support incidents the best I can. Ultimate goal is for this to be a standard in GEO-OPS.
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Forgot to mention there is a news release of some sort on August 4th on iTAK 2.0. I will be sure to share with you what we find out. iTAK will get this in the rest of your simple minded hands…j.k. I have an iphone too. Im typing this from a Mac as well. I have em all lol. Im pretty excited about this getting much more of an audience in wildfire and public safety in general.
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Also totally forgot within a data package you can have a pdf file (by pdf I mean like a readable document like the IAP not a geospatial pdf map, ATAK uses geotiffs). So total one stop shopping. All your maps, kmls, videos, documents in one download right into TAK. I will start adding the IAPs tomorrow when I build data packages. If you want to check it out I posted an updated one for the Apple with the IAP in it. It uses the same file name so be sure to delete the original off your device then add this one.
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Well looks like not a lot released on iTAK today, looks like more to come in a couple weeks.
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Well, as a IOS user, I would say that the release of 2.0
Is pretty significant. Been looking forward to being able to touch and feel the product but didn’t have the capability.
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Oh yeah its going to open up a tool to you that your gonna love. Its Avenza on steroids and can be connected to other users in a group. Even stand alone without connectivity to other users its a slick tool. Cant wait for it to get in more peoples hands.
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What is the name of the app for iOS?
iTAK its not out. I will let you guys know when its released. The whole suite of products is called TAK (Team Awareness Kit) for the civilian side and (Tactical Assault Kit) for the DoD side. ATAK is Android, iTAK is for iOS aka Apple.
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Uploaded CA DPA kmz to the data folders at https://tinyurl.com/TAKMAPS
This came from FRAP, I noticed some things like the entire chino hills state park not showing up as state DPA in ArcPro I will look into that more but I think its a pretty decent data set. For now it should work pretty well for CA users.
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I was able to download iTAK from the APP store this afternoon. Is this an old version?
Please send me a screen shot I do not see it on app store, and spoke about it today with the tak product center and it is not released and still in development at this point.
There is an app called iTAK in the Apple Ap Store but it is for a different developer.
If it doesnt have this logo its not what your looking for 
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Thanks, The APP I downloaded was from SITREP, which also uses iTAK as a label.
NOT what you want. I will be waiting for your word of the iOS release.
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AJ, I apologize if the answer to my question is in one of your sources……but, after you import a map like the DPA then close the app out do you always have to re import every time you close and open the app? Anyway to save all your imports?
Where did you import aircraft tracking from?
@FSFF once you import anything its on your device you dont have to import again. The only thing that would say need to be “refreshed” are things that reach out to the web to get their realtime info like for example you can bring in modis as a kml network link. If you want to get the latest you would tell the program to refresh that link. Once you program the link its always there but you will have to tell it to “stream” when you want it to.
Aircraft is done using ADSB and right now the FBI is working on a more robust hardware solution to make it more stable. The way it works is the ADSB receiver picks up the aircraft callsign and then it pushes that info into a TAK server. In order for you to see that info you must be connected to that TAK server in some fashion or there is another option where you take that same hardware and hook it to your ATAK device there is a plugin for ATAK where it will broadcast the aircraft info out over a TAK server.
A bit about networking. ATAK will work peer to peer so if your on the same wifi network you will see other ATAK users. So you could use a VPN service to see other users miles away from each other if they were using LTE but on a shared VPN.
USFS is working on a TAK server for evaluation to try out for feasibility. If you are dying to try to be connected there is TeamConnect for ATAK which is what my FD uses. 100 bucks a year a device and you can have devices connect to each other.
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Great news story from our friends at CoE. Hopefully this is coming to California.
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Hey ATAK users I uploaded some geospatial video and the ops map from the Thomas Fire. Go to the Video folder and download the DP-Thomas Fire file. Dont unzip it. Then import into ATAK.
This is the first ops map of the incident and whats cool is you can play the video and the aircraft position will show as wells as sensor point of interest aka SPI on the map. Gives you an idea of what can be done with geospatial video. You can also click on the SPI and have it drop bread crumbs. In the next version of ATAK out very soon you can change the color of the breadcrumb. That was a direct change from the wildfire community so we can change depending on your basemap of choice. Its currently white which is difficult to see if you have it over an ops map. If the sensor operator is tracing the fire edge and able to live stream the video you could map on the fly. Enjoy.
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