'openTAKpickList' - Team Awareness Kit (TAK) - related resources and links.

This is a list of web resources, hardware and software that can be used in conjunction with the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) platform.

Official TAK Resources

• TAK Product Center - The official TAK Product Center
• TAK Promo Video - YouTube

Community TAK Resources

• CivTAK.org Website
• TAK JumpStart Wiki on Reddit - A community wiki on Reddit
• CivTAK Wiki * Needs updating.

TAK Binaries and Source Code (TPC)

Released by the TAK Product Center (TPC)

• Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) - CIV - Google Play
• Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) - CIV | Source Code - GitHub
• TAK Server | Source Code - GitHub | TAK.GOV - (Requires registration - some restrictions apply)

TAK Plugins (TPC)

Plugins released by the TAK Product Center (TPC) on the Google Play Store and on TAK.gov.

• WASP, a plug-in for conducting and coordinating Wide Area Search, including search and extraction, confined space rescue, and victim triage, when responding to incidents such as a natural disaster. - Google Play
• HAMMER, Handheld Acoustic Modem for Mobile Exchanges with Radios (HAMMER) is an ATAK plugin that acts as a software acoustic modem, allowing one to transmit/receive TAK data over voice comms (e.g., via walkie talkies). - Google Play
• Somewear, Somewear’s compact satellite hotspot and ATAK plugin provide reliable BLOS communication and situational awareness between personnel, assets, interagency partners and operations centers. Somewear supports 100% global coverage across ground, aerial and maritime operations. Google Play
• TAK-ML, a platform designed to make it easy to employ machine learning within the TAK ecosystem. TAK-ML provides a library and runtime system that ATAK plugin developers can use to interact with ML models developed in an any of a number of ML frameworks (e.g., Image, PosMov, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Weka). TAK.gov
• UAS Tool, a plug-in that provides integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for enhanced Situational Awareness (SA) and telemetry data, Full Motion Video (FMV), and command and control (C2). TAK.gov
• DataSync, used to synchronize multiple ATAK devices involved in the same exercise or event. This plug-in requires TAK Server 1.3.3+. TAK Server stores all data for a "mission" in a server side database. Clients may subscribe to a mission to receive dynamic updates when a mission changes, or to synchronize data missed while a given device was disconnected. TAK.gov

TAK Plugins (Community Developed)

• atak-forwarder, forwards packets to/from ATAK over an off-grid communication layer. (Meshtastic) - GitHub, Binary Repository
• 'Improved' HAMMER Fork, a customized HAMMER build with performance hacks. - GitHub, Binary Repository
• OpenTakNavigation, enables offline routing using graphhopper routing engine and Open Stree Map data. - GitHub
• APRS-TAK, uses APRSDroid's API to generate PLI/GeoChat within ATAK. - Github
• BingMaps, ATAK Plugin to display BingMaps Bird's Eye. - Github
• CotMaker, a simple plugin that creates a CoT from a decimal format GPS coordinate. - Github
• FreeTAKMumla, a ATAK plugin that displays a PPT button for Mumla Android. - Github

TAK Utilities (TPC)

Standalone applications released by the TAK Product Center (TPC) on the Google Play Store and on TAK.gov.

• TAK Tracker, is a “send only” version of ATAK. - Google Play

TAK Utilities (Community Developed)

• cotbeacon, standalone SA tracking app.- GitHub (Discontinued)
• cotgenerator, generates CoTs on a server, great for testing servers and annoying users. - GitHub (Discontinued)
• FreeTAKUAS, controls DJI drones and output's CoT to server and multicast. With RTSP video streaming support. - Google Play, GitHub

TAK Server Software (Free/Open Source)

• FreeTAKServer, a implementation of the TAK Server for devices like ATAK, WinTAK, and ITAK, it is cross-platform and runs from a multi node installation on AWS down to the Android edition. It's free and open source (released under the Eclipse Public License). - GitHub
• GoATAK, Golang implementation of ATAK server/CoT router aimed to test some ideas about CoT message routing. - GitHub
• taky, a simple Python TAK Server. - GitHub
• MultiTAK, a simple TAK server written in Javascript that relays messages between networks and servers. - GitHub
• OpenTAKRouter, an Open Source Cursor-on-Target router with support for ATAK. (w/ native Windows 10 support) - GitHub

TAK Server Providers (Commercial / Paid)

• PAR TeamConnect, TeamConnect- Sit(x)™ is a Next Generation TAK Server-as-a-Service solution hosted in the FedRAMP compliant AWS GovCloud - Website
• ArgusTAK, a cloud based TAK server that's simple, secure and reliable - Website

TAK Development Tools & Server-Side Stuff

• FreeTAKServer Manager, a Windows FTS Installer / Uninstaller GUI - Github
• tak.js, Lightweight JavaScript library for parsing and manipulating TAK messages, primarily Cursor-on-Target (COT) - GitHub
• aprscot, APRS Cursor-on-Target Gateway. - GitHub
• adsbcot, ADS-B to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway for ATAK & WinTAK SA platforms. - GitHub
• adsbxcot, ADS-B Exchange Cursor on Target Gateway transforms ADS-B Exchange Aircraft API Objects to Cursor on Target PLI - GitHub
• pytak, Python Team Awareness Kit (PyTAK) is a Python Module for creating TAK clients_ - GitHub
• stratuxcot, Stratux Cursor on Target Gateway - GitHub
• inrcot, Garmin inReach to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway for Situational Awareness (SA) tools like ATAK, WinTAK, RaptorX, COPERS, et al. - GitHub

Unofficial TAK Binary & Plugin Mirrors (TAK CIV Community Member Maintained)

Android

• ATAK Binaries - Google Drive
• ATAK Support Plugins - Google Drive

Windows

• WinTAK Binaries - Google Drive
• WinTAK Support Plugins - Google Drive

Map Sources

• A collection of maps for ATAK - GitHub

TAK Community Discussion, Chat and Resources

• TAK Community on Reddit
• TAK Community on Discord
• TAK Community Server List
• Reddit TAK JumpStart Wiki
• The openTAKpickList - You're here right now.

Hardware and Software Pick List

Small Single Board Computers (SBC's) / Microservers

• Raspberry Pi - Website

Full Pi Kits and Accessories

• CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 Basic Kit (8GB RAM) - Amazon
• Argon NEO Raspberry Pi 4 Case - Amazon

GPS

• VK172 USB GPS Dongle (GPS/GLONASS), this USB module can support Windows, Android, Linux, Raspberry PI, Google Earth and WinTAK. - Amazon

Off-Grid Mesh Communicators

• Meshtastic - Website, Hardware
• goTenna - Website
• Radacat - Website, eBay

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