TAK Can App

Live aircraft, vessels, weather radar & cameras (subscription). Free: hazards, NOTAM/TFR, and team coordination. No account needed.

TAK Can — Situational Awareness

No account. No server. Works right out of the box.

TAK Can is a situational awareness app for iOS — designed for anyone who wants to stay informed during emergencies, track natural hazards, or coordinate with a small group in the field.

Free Live Data Feeds -- Emergency & Hazard Feeds — (no sign-in required or subscription required)

• Alert Ready — national emergency alerts: Amber alerts, severe weather, evacuations
• Wildfire tracking — active fire hotspots from Natural Resources Canada
• 511 road incidents — closures, construction, and hazards for ON, QC, BC, and AB
• Earthquakes — USGS worldwide M2.5+ events in the past 24 hours
• Hurricanes — NOAA active tropical storm tracking (Atlantic & Pacific)
• Severe weather — NWS tornado and severe thunderstorm alerts (USA)
• Tsunamis — NOAA Pacific and global tsunami warnings

Interactive Map

• Multiple base maps: satellite, topo, nautical, and street
• Offline tile packages and custom map sources
• Overlay manager for stacking feeds and custom layers
• Search any address or coordinate — map centres and zooms automatically
• MGRS, UTM, Decimal Degrees, and DMS coordinate display
• Drop waypoints and share them locally

Apple Watch — standalone

• Live compass, speed, and altitude on your wrist
• Heart rate and battery status visible to nearby devices on the same mesh
• Emergency beacon from the watch face
• Chat notifications and quick reply

Local Mesh Networking — no internet required

• Device-to-device position sharing via Apple Multipeer Connectivity
• Bluetooth LE for background mesh when the screen is off
• Chat and waypoint sharing across the local mesh — no server or internet needed

Live Data Subscription (optional, auto-renewable — free trial available) • ADS-B aircraft — live aircraft positions worldwide • AIS vessel tracking — ships with heading, speed & destination • Weather radar — ECCC, RainViewer, or OpenWeatherMap overlay • Traffic cameras — ON, QC, BC, and AB highway feeds Cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.

Optional: Connect to a community server TAK Can is compatible with TAK-protocol servers used by community groups, outdoor clubs, and emergency management volunteers. This is entirely optional — the app is fully functional without it.

• TCP, UDP, and TLS server connections
• Certificate enrollment and mTLS support
• Channels, team chat, and geo-chat
• Import and export data packages

About TAK Can TAK Can is based on the open-source TAK Aware project. TAK (Team Awareness Kit) is a widely-used open standard for situational awareness, originally developed for field operations and now used by outdoor enthusiasts, emergency preparedness groups, and community responders worldwide.

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