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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Been working with AJ and Conner the last few days in ATAK and I must say, the possibilities are endless. In camp, intel has the opportunity to become much faster. I am looking forward to some of the tools available out on the line as a STEN in the future. Thanks AJ and all those involved in getting this to the field.
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It’s been a pleasure working @eng1ine and the rest of the folks on the LNU and BEU fires testing out ATAK. Hoping to see the real time situational awareness tool set grow for us with shared geospatial intel. You guys working on Comm 34 knocked it out of the park with ATAK running on an amazon firestick!
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Any updates on when this will be useable with iOS?
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I think probably late this year early next year. DHS really wants to get this right and they are not gonna rush it. Nice thing is this time around apple is involved. We just have to wait for now but seriously go buy an android tablet and tether to your phone. I have watched 10 people do that in the last 2 weeks. Make sure you get one with a compass and gps radio.
Another tidbit to remember is as of now TAK will not take a geo referenced pdf. The maps must be converted to a geotif or the GIS shop has to export as a tif. This does not take long but just beware.
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We had some cool success this past week working with @DC3075 testing ATAK in cellular denied environments and using VHF radio to send positions, polygons, points and chat. Here is a couple pics and a video of the set up. This is done over a Motorola APX Radio using a side program running on the Android device called Plugnix from KeySquare Labs. It’s done using digital P25 protocol. The cool thing is the data channel doesn’t have to be the same as your voice channel. With dual and Tri band radios the possibilities are pretty cool. The next step is testing over repeaters. We got 12 kilometers direct line of sight passing the data. Basically if you can hear someone on a direct channel you would be able to see them in ATAK.
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This is a Service Bulletin from BK Technologies on the Sortware for the KNG SERIES RADIO. 5 .6 software is CORRUPT and it needs to be downgraded to 5.5.9 or less.
BKSB-1057 5.6 Software Issue.pdf (246.0 KB)
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Here it is! ATAK now on the Play Store.
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