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Dallas Clements posted a video today on how turn a paper map into a Rubber Sheet in CIVTAK/ATAK. I did one a couple of years ago, but his shows how its done with the new user interface. One of the nice things about this is that he gives an elevation-based example of why its better viewed in 3D with ATAK …
Adding Rubber Sheets in CivTAK/ATAK More
Here’s a video that Dallas Clements did to show how to import custom Icons into ATAK. It looks like he’s doing a series.
Custom Icons in ATAK More
Raytheon (BBN) announced that they are building an ATAK plugin to manage Civilan Affairs tasks. The program is funded by Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate or IWTSD (Formerly the Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office). You can find the complete press release here.
Raytheon Building “Civilian Affairs” Plugin MoreATAK 4.7 was released today with a bunch of small improvements, including support for Cyrillic (including Ukrainian) languages. You can find a complete, exhaustive discussion of what’s been added/changed/fixed/updated, along with the status of TAKServer, and TAKX in this video from the recent developer off-site, held in Rome, NY . Also, not mentioned in the video, you can now find …
ATAK 4.7 Released; Other Product Status Discussed MoreHere’s a post from Adam Fish from Ditto, which is demonstrating their Peer to Peer technology on ATAK as part of their new $950M contract with the USAF.
Ditto Demos P2P ATAK use More
Greg Albrecht has been working on a Python-based Server with integration to several important systems. It looks pretty impressive. (PyTAK is not to be confused with PiTAK, which is a TAKServer running on a Raspberry Pi). Below is the linked in post where he shared on LinkedIn, and the GitHub repository is worth a look.
Another Server for TAK More