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Is ATAK even useful to civilians? Is it trustworthy?

• adrianpike 1y ago
  Yes and yes, we've used it for civilian Search & Rescue in tandem with CalTopo.
• gh02t 1y ago
  I use it for hiking, its great.
  • Yossarrian22 1y ago
    How do you use it for that?
    • BertoldVdb 1y ago
      It is an offline moving map with very fancy marker etc support. Seems a good choice for a hiking app?
    • gh02t 1y ago
      Can design then export routes from any geospatial tool like CalTopo, AllTrails, or even WinTAK directly to your ATAK device. Then in ATAK you can use it basically as something like AllTrails on steroids, including offline map caching, route guidance, markers, tracking etc... even geotagged photos. This can be synced across multiple devices among friends using a TAK server. It can also be used for off grid communications and tracking between hikers via something like Meshtastic, which I use fairly regularly with my partner out camping well outside of cellular coverage. ATAK is not necessarily the most intuitive UI, but it's crazy powerful for doing basically anything outdoors.