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
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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.
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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
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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.
Privacy Policy: https://takaware.ca/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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