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.

Just released BattleStaffTools 2.6.2, now everyone with a license can download the full Worldwide Equipment Guide for offline use.

Working on offline access to Worldwide Equipment Guide. It is going really well.

Just published maintenance updates to milsymbol and milstandard-e. Find the repositories on github.

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.

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

Just released Battle Staff Tools 2.4.1 - Fix for not setting layer correctly on graphics - Initial support for importing KMZ

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/

TAKing things to the next level. First prototype of cursor on target importer.

Some say, size doesn’t matter.

Wish for something in the future of Battle Staff Tools. Dream a little.

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.

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

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.

Esri VTPK/TPKX in @maplibre.org 🎤 dropped

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.

Battle Staff Tools 2.2.0 should now, or soon, be live at the new hosting. Lots and lots of updates, read the changelog.

Got things up and running at the new hosting, think I’m ready to flip the switch.

I just published geographiclib-mgrs, with support for MGRS in UPS zones.

I just published milsymbol 3.0.1 that hopefully solves an issue with text rendering in Firefox.

Am I right or am I right?

We are getting close to UPS MGRS support. ☺️ Just need to get a reply that explains why GeographicLib differs from Geotrans.

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

My fight against ugly PowerPoint images continues, made a raster background map.

Hey, I’m in the newsletter. ☺️

If you have a stand-alone license, you can now download Battle Staff Tools 2.0. spatialillusions.com/unitgenerato... Now with 3d support, improved maps, easy access to coordinate lists, and other functionality.

Test and verification, the one thing all developers love. ❤️ Now BattleStaffTools support even older browsers than the official @maplibre.org.

Coordinate lists, an important part of many documents. Closing in on release.

Adding functionality to edit attributes for units on the map.

I know many very expensive C2 systems that can’t draw like this. Did you know that you can run Battle Staff Tools completely offline, without any installations?

A globe definitely gives you new perspectives.

Started working on a round thingie, found and fixed a lot of broken things.

Milsymbol 3.0 is live, grab it on GitHub or NPM.

Just published rc2 of milsymbol 3. npm install milsymbol@next --save

Has anyone created a jslib file for @unity.com that uses milsymbol? I got the question and realized that there might be others that are interested in this.

Just published milsymbol 3.0 rc-1, run: npm install milsymbol@next Please report any problems.

Just made a rewrite of milsymbol-batch, your tool if you want to generate large amount of military symbols from an excel sheet. Everything you need is checked into the dist folder. github.com/spatialillus...

Since #ORBATboys seems to have partially moved to bluesky, I might as well post some of my ORBATs here. Presenting the US 26th Infantry Division, from my home state of Massachusetts, as of late WW2.

Been on a RevWar kick as of late, so here's the ORBAT of the 33rd Regiment of Foot c. 1775 before its departure for the American Colonies. Special thanks to Dr. Robbie MacNiven for his excellent book "The Pattern" and @spatialillusion.bsky.social for his superb Battle Staff tools #ORBATboys

#ORBATBoys on BlueSky: here now my FIRST official post here and my second on Substack. @lukel.bsky.social @battleorder.org jmramos0109.substack.com/p/afu-bicycl...

I just released Battle Staff Tools 1.9! Added support for multi level orbats, and improved support for Cyrillic 🇺🇦 and long unit names, among other things. (And self-propelled artillery is back.) spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/ #ORBATboys

Battle Staff Tools 1.8 is live, now with even more tactical graphics! Free online, and a single html file if you want to run it in a disconnected environment, the world’s easiest C2 system. 😉 Buy a stand-alone license or a coffee to support my work. spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/

Think documentation is done, release shouldn’t be too far away.

ORBAT for a proposed new composition for the Finnish Armored Division made by the unit's commander, Maj. Gen. Ruben Lagus in July 1944. #ORBATBoys

Cleared up the menu bars and moved a bunch of things into a drop down. Now there is room for so much new functionality.

Added icons and a bunch of more graphics. Not bad for a weekend’s worth of work.

It is starting to look a lot like C2…

Coffee in, graphics out.

More coffee = More code. Buy me a coffee.

I think I isolated my previous coding errors.