iTAK: Collaborative Geospatial Application for Real-time Team Awareness
The iTAK app, developed by the United States Department of the Army TAK Product Center, is a powerful collaborative geospatial application designed to provide real-time team awareness. Whether you're in the military, law enforcement, or engaged in outdoor activities like hunting or fishing, iTAK offers a range of features to enhance your situational awareness.
With iTAK, you can track the locations of your team members in real-time using the Blue force/team tracking (BFT) feature. The app also supports collaborative mapping, allowing you to mark points of interest, share drawings, and import overlays in various formats such as KML, KMZ, and GeoPDF.
iTAK enables seamless communication among team members through chat, file sharing, and photo sharing. You can even live stream videos and share video links with your team. The app also includes a spotted map feature, allowing you to mark and share multiple locations on the map.
In addition to these collaborative features, iTAK offers useful tools like navigation for walking, hiking, driving, and air-ground coordination. You can measure range and bearing, use the digital pointer to mark items on the map, and even set emergency beacons for your team.
The upcoming features and enhancements of iTAK include full compatibility with TAK Geochat and TAK Datasync, as well as support for all icon sets available in ATAK.
Compatible with iOS version 14.1 and later, iTAK provides a secure and fully compatible experience with the TAK ecosystem, making it an invaluable tool for anyone needing real-time team awareness.
