FIRECOP / PUBLIC
Operational layers
Browse reviewed fire, disaster, USAR, maritime, and public-safety products on a map-first directory.
MAPGEOJSONKMLTAK
Public mission dataTAK-ready tools
Tools work
better together.
&kit is the public front door to cameras, fire context, terrain, weather, aircraft evidence, and the connective work that makes each tool more useful.
THE CONNECTIVE LAYER04 / INDEPENDENT TOOLS
SHARED DISCOVERYOPEN PUBLIC LINKSREADY FOR TAK
01 — PUBLIC DATA
Straight to
the useful part.
Open a public map, inspect provenance, or go directly to a machine-readable catalog. Specialty workspaces stay independent; the useful public doors are collected here.
DTED.ORG / PUBLIC
Terrain coverage
Find published elevation releases, inspect exact enhanced coverage, and get setup or offline artifacts.
MAPDTEDZIPAPI
DRONECASE / PUBLIC
PNT Watch
Review privacy-bounded navigation evidence and independent environmental context without exposing identifiers.
MAPEVIDENCEAPI
CAMBOT / DISCOVERY
Camera products
Discover the camera service, public product metadata, and the path to normalized camera records for TAK.
CATALOGCAMERASTAK
FIRECOP / WEATHER
Radar + alerts
Open NOAA MRMS radar and active National Weather Service polygon alerts as reviewed FireCOP map and TAK products.
RADARALERTSMAPTAK
02 — THE KIT
Specialists, by design.
Each project keeps its own identity, operating model, and release cadence. &kit gives these independent services a shared public language and a clear way in.
01cambot.us
Cambot
Public road and incident cameras, normalized into one map and packaged for TAK.
Cameras · media · TAK export02firecop.us
FireCOP
A wildland-fire common operating picture with public layers and field-ready products.
Fire · disaster · USAR03dted.org
DTED.org
Published terrain elevation releases with visible coverage, provenance, and quality.
Terrain · coverage · elevation04dronecase.net
DroneCase
A retained evidence and analysis platform for aircraft, UAS, vessels, and TAK data.
Air · maritime · evidence03 — SHARED CONTEXT
One connective layer.
Independent services.
&kit is not one giant application. It is a common front door and a shared interoperability layer: predictable discovery, stable product links, and context that can move between tools.
- 01Find it once
One public index for the project family and its data.
- 02Keep authority visible
Source ownership and provenance travel with the product.
- 03Move it into the field
TAK and open GIS paths remain first-class outputs.
CONNECTION SCHEMATICPUBLIC / READ-ONLY
CAMERA
INCIDENT
WEATHER
TERRAIN
AIR + SEA
DISCOVER
PUBLIC PRODUCTS SHARED CONTRACTS TAK HANDOFF
WHY “&KIT”?
People kept referring to TAK as
“the and kit.”
The nickname stuck because it names the most useful part: connection. A camera and a perimeter. Terrain and a radar mosaic. An aircraft track and the field tools that can act on it.
Written andkit. Shown as &kit. Built to connect.
THE PUBLIC FRONT DOOR