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@takwerx takwerx released this 25 Aug 18:42
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v0.5
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Map Depot downloads map data from inside ATAK. No browser, no Downloads folder, no Import Manager — pick what you want in the plugin and it installs itself where ATAK already looks.

Four kinds of data

  • Elevation (DTED2) — terrain by state or province, for viewsheds and elevation readouts. Every cell is checked against a SHA-256 digest before install, because a truncated .dt2 reads as valid to ATAK and silently corrupts line of sight.
  • Streaming base maps — satellite, street, topographic and nautical sources, plus transparent overlays that put roads and labels back on top of fresh imagery.
  • Offline public lands — Forest Service vector basemaps, one per national forest or grassland, drawn with no network at all.
  • Offline ranger district maps — the printed district maps as georeferenced GeoPDFs.

How it behaves

  • Rows say whether something is absent, partly held, or installed — the list doubles as an inventory of the device.
  • Downloads resume after a dropped connection instead of starting over, and can be cancelled without losing what already arrived.
  • Removing says what it will actually free before it runs. Elevation comes in one-degree squares shared between neighboring states, so squares another region still needs are kept — and if removing a state would free nothing, it says so rather than doing nothing quietly.
  • Tapping an installed offline map takes you to it on the map.
  • A filter on every page narrows the list to what is installed.

User manual ships inside the plugin: Settings → Tool Preferences → Map Depot → Plugin Documentation.

Which download

These are built and signed by tak.gov, and are matched to the ATAK release they were built against. Pick the one for your device — a mismatch will not load, and the failure does not look like a version problem.

ATAK-CIV File
5.6 ATAK-Plugin-MapDepot-0.5--5.6.0-civ-release.apk
5.7 ATAK-Plugin-MapDepot-0.5--5.7.0-civ-release.apk
5.8 ATAK-Plugin-MapDepot-0.5--5.8.0-civ-release.apk

Sideload the APK, then load it from ATAK's Plugins manager.

Full guide with screenshots: https://github.com/takwerx/map-depot/blob/main/docs/USER_GUIDE.md

Needs outbound HTTPS (port 443) and nothing else — no account, no key, no TAK server involvement.

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