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Android Team Awareness Kit (CivTAK) Community Wiki

The purpose of this wiki is as a community resource to allow people to document how ATAK and CivTAK work and promote them to the civilian community, including for First Responders of all sorts. If/when other products are released, they will be added to the wiki.

You are welcomed, encouraged and needed to edit and improve this wiki to encourage community development and extension.

What is TAK?

The Team Awareness Kit (TAK), for civilian uses, or Tactical Assault Kit (also TAK) for military uses is a suite of software that provides geospatial information and allows user collaboration over geography. There are numerous TAK Products in the TAK family, all developed at government expense

The Team Awareness Kit for Android (ATAK, also known as CivTAK) was originally developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is now maintained by a Joint Product Center.

ATAK (including CivTAK) is an Android smartphone geospatial infrastructure and situational awareness app. It allows for precision targeting, surrounding land formation intelligence, situational awareness, navigation, and data sharing.

All the Android variants of TAK are virtually identical and all are interoperable with each other and with other TAK products. There are small, military-specific additions in military versions of ATAK.

See the TAK Products page for a more comprehensive list of TAK Products.

You can also read an ATAK overView from the ATAK Manual and an Documentation and Tutorials in Wiki Format.

CivTAK Features

Industry/civilian capabilities of ATAK/CivTAK include:

Online and offline mapping (most standard formats), with a blazing fast rendering engine

Support for very high-resolution imagery (sub 1 cm resolution)

Collaborative mapping, including points, drawings, locations of interest

Extensive and customizable set of Icons

Overlay Manager which allows the Import and display of KML, KMZ, GPX overlays, maps and imagery including both online and offline sources with adjustable transparancy. These overlays can be treated as Gridded Refrence Gaphics.

Location marking, sharing, history

Chat, file sharing, photo sharing, video sharing, streaming

Navigation-walking/hiking, driving, also useful flying and air-ground coordination

Elevation Tools, heat maps, computed contour maps, viewsheds, routes w/DTED, SRTM, including dynamic profiling

Hashtags and Sticky tags

Center on Self, Center on other objects (e.g. another person in the network)

Range, bearing, and other measurement tools

Network-aware geofences with triggers

"Bloodhound" destination tracking, including on moving objects

Team Emergency Beacons

Customizable Toolbar

Radio controls and Integration

Photo to map capability (aka Rubber Sheeting)

Casualty evacuation tool

Icon support for a wide variety of First Responder missions with further extensible Icons

3D perspective and ability to display 3D geospatial models

Useful for First Responders, Hunting, fishing, ornithology, wildlife site survey

An API with an SDK

Source: AFRL’s ATAK™ Web Page and the CivTAK 4.0 Manual

The API and associated SDK allow developers with access to extend CivTAK's functionality in virtually any dimension. See the list of Civilian Plugins

Official Media

TAK Product Center Geoblocked to US IP Addresses Only

Do not use / trust atakmap.com.

Downloads

There is a file repository with consolidated executables, documention and geospatial documents here.

If you need to upload a file (such as a tutorial or language translation, for instance), you can do that here.

Download CivTAK / ATAK-PR

CivTAK/ATAK-CIV TAK Product Center Latest Version

If you are having installation problems, see the Installation Problems page.

CivTAK / ATAK-PR Repackaged (Deprecated)

This is an UNOFFICIAL repackaged version of ATAK-PR 4.0.0.1 with needed libraries to work with more Android architectures.

ATAK-PR Plugins

ATAK-PR (ATAK v.4.0.0.1 (3a32eb4e)[civ.pr]) has plugin support internally. However does not actually support plugins and released by the government.

If you need plugins, you currently need CivTAK 4.0, which supports plugins. See the list of Civilian Plugins.

Resources

Mapsources and Datasets

Icons and Symbology

FEMA ATAK Icon Package - Included in CivTAK and CivTAK-PR.

DHS ATAK Icon Package - Included in CivTAK and CivTAK-PR.

Documentation & Tutorials

There are numerous forms of Documentation and Tutorials, including several video tutorials

Websites

TAKCiv.org collects public information and news about the TAK program.

Social Media & Discussion Groups

TAK Server Solutions & TAK Inter-connectivity Methods

Free/Open Source Solutions

FreeTakServer Logo

TAKFreeServer A Free Python-based 'TAK Server' Alternative

Page Directory

Licence / Distribution

Both CivTAK and ATAK-PR are availalble to the public at no cost. You simply need to agree to the license.

ATAK-PR is the least restricted version of TAK and is made available to support virtually any individual or organization with a requirement to display Position Location Information (PLI). ATAK-PR is subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) administered by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which advices this item is classified as EAR99 (CJ0001904 & CJ0002108-CJ0002135). TAK-PR is not authorized for release to an embargoed or sanctioned country, to a party of concern, or in support of prohibited end-use.

ATAK-PR and CivTAK, and their SDKs have also been approved for public release under the same restrictions listed above. See the Public Release paperwork here.

ATAK is NOT FOR SALE (Its Free)

"YOU ARE GRANTED A PERPETUAL, NON-EXCLUSIVE, NO-CHARGE, ROYALTY-FREE RIGHT TO USE, COPY, PUBLISH, AND/OR DISTRIBUTE THE ATAK PR SOFTWARE IN OBJECT CODE FORMAT, AND TO PERMIT PERSONS TO WHOM THE SOFTWARE IS FURNISHED TO DO SO. "

"YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO SELL, REVERSE ENGINEER, DISASSEMBLE, OR DECOMPILE THE ATAK PR SOFTWARE, OR TO PERMIT OTHERS TO DO SO."

Source: ATAK Licence - Settings > About > View EULA

Read the full (ATAK End-user License Agreement (EULA)) here.

ATAK was paid for with public funds.