need Attitude and Type to generate TAK types

[brothercorvo]

This is Corvo from FreeTAKServer's project. We got some request to transform RedMap this into a full TAK client so if you ware willing to implement some functions I will take over the implementation of the API the main functionality is to be able to create the different types of drop points (friendly, Hostile, neutral and unknow) when a marker is clicked, depending from the status of 2 buttons attitude and Type are set

{ "action": "click", "name":"Putin", "layer":"gps", "attitude": "hostile", "Type": "Sniper", "icon":"male", "iconColor":"blue", "lat":38.889, "lon":-77.0104 }  

Based on that I can send to the FTS rest API a message like this:

{
"longitude": -77.0104,
"latitude": 38.889,
"attitude": "hostile",
"geoObject": "Gnd Combat Infantry Sniper",
"how": "nonCoT",
"name": "Putin",
"timeout": 600  
}

[dceejay]

Hi @brothercorvo, great to see you. When you right click on the map to create an icon

you can type in the name , then the icon - which can be a SIDC code (or short part thereof) eg Dave,SFGPU to create

or Corvo,SSAPMF for a fixed wing suspected enemy aircraft

You can usually change SIDC codes into COT codes quite easily I think SFGPU -> a-f-G-U
SSAPMF -> a-s-A-M-F

Is that OK ? I use the milsymbol js library which may also help decode. (edit: hmm looking at it I'm not sure it helps much) But their generator is useful for creating codes - https://spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/

[dceejay]

I have pushed a change so that that if you are online the "form" now looks like

v2.21.8

[dceejay]

The other way to do it is to re-write the right click menu to be whatever you want - eg a simple form

msg.payload = { command: {
contextmenu: String.raw`
Text <input type="text" id="sometext" value="hello"><br/>
Number <input type="number" id="somenum" value="5"><br/>
<input type="button" value="Send" onclick=
'feedback("myform",{
    "st":document.getElementById("sometext").value,
    "sn":document.getElementById("somenum").value,
})'
>
`
}}
return msg;

Example

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sends

If you do use your own form then you will need to feedback whatever actual marker you wish to use back to the map to make it visible.

[brothercorvo]

thanks, this is technically feasible, however it's not very comfortable for end users in a TAK scenario of Emergency. What I wonder is if we can have a new layer, with a toolbox containing the basic types and attitude. As soon the toolbox is activated, a new element is created with auto-name (Sniper1, sniper2, etc). The name can be edited later if necessary. It's feasible?

[dceejay]

That still "feels" like a custom contextmenu - albeit a somewhat more complex one than the example above... Let me see if I can create one.

[dceejay]

Maybe something like

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[brothercorvo]

Works now, will be included in the next release of FreeTAKServer!

[dceejay]

More TAK like (default) names

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