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Added a sample set from Worldwide Equipment Guide to Battle Staff Tools online. With a stand-alone license you get access to the complete data base without the need to be online.
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Just released BattleStaffTools 2.6.2, now everyone with a license can download the full Worldwide Equipment Guide for offline use.
August 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Working on offline access to Worldwide Equipment Guide. It is going really well.
August 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just published maintenance updates to milsymbol and milstandard-e. Find the repositories on github.
July 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Even if I create open source software, you can’t expect to get everything I do for free.
This is apparently a hard concept for large organizations to understand.
July 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Just released Battle Staff Tools 2.5.0 now with support for importing coordinates from PDF documents, improvements in scenario merging, and many other small fixes.
You can find the new version at spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator
July 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Just released Battle Staff Tools 2.4.1
- Fix for not setting layer correctly on graphics
- Initial support for importing KMZ
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Battle Staff Tools 2.4.0 is released!
Now with layers for your features in the map, and the possibility to import data from ATAK, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
As always, free to use online, but use the buy me a coffee link if you want to support my work.
spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/
June 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
TAKing things to the next level. First prototype of cursor on target importer.
May 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Some say, size doesn’t matter.
May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wish for something in the future of Battle Staff Tools.
Dream a little.
May 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Just released Battle Staff Tools 2.3.1.
Added a setting to use plain text files instead of json/geojson, if you use a system with strict security rules that prevents download of json/geojson.
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Just released Battle Staff Tools 2.3.0!
Now with support for reading Esri VTPK and TPKX, both local and server based files.
If you want to host it on your own server, all map services can easily be configured in a json file.
#BattleStaffTools spatialillusions.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
After patching @maplibre.org, my code for reading Esri VTPK now works for overscaled tiles.
Just waiting for @bdon.org to get back on how to license my derivate work.
May 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Esri VTPK/TPKX in @maplibre.org
🎤 dropped
April 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Got it working!
Rasters from a local Esri TPKX direct into @maplibre.org Remote files should 🤞 work as well with my custom zip parser.
Next step VTPK.
April 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Battle Staff Tools 2.2.0 should now, or soon, be live at the new hosting.
Lots and lots of updates, read the changelog.
April 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Got things up and running at the new hosting, think I’m ready to flip the switch.
April 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I just published geographiclib-mgrs, with support for MGRS in UPS zones.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I just published milsymbol 3.0.1 that hopefully solves an issue with text rendering in Firefox.
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Am I right or am I right?
March 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We are getting close to UPS MGRS support. ☺️ Just need to get a reply that explains why GeographicLib differs from Geotrans.
March 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This might be my best idea, or worst idea, I’m letting everyone use Battle Staff Tools stand-alone until first of may.
spatialillusions.com/spatialillus...
#BattleStaffTools
March 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My fight against ugly PowerPoint images continues, made a raster background map.
March 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hey, I’m in the newsletter. ☺️
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