Military use
What the engine offers for tactical and mission-planning applications.
In the engine
| Area | Capability | API |
|---|---|---|
| Symbology | MIL-STD-2525C/D icons with frames, affiliation colours, echelon and modifiers; CoT a- types are symbolized automatically |
otk/milsym.hpp |
| Coordinates | MGRS, UTM, UPS (polar MGRS), GARS, DD/DM/DMS, NATO mils; WMM2025 magnetic declination; grid convergence; true/magnetic/grid bearings | otk/navigation.hpp, otk/mgrs.hpp |
| Graphics | Range rings, bullseye, range and bearing lines, sectors, ellipses, geodesic circles; MGRS, lat/lon and GARS grids | otk/navigation.hpp, Engine::setGridType |
| Terrain analysis | Line of sight, viewshed, elevation profiles, contours, slope shading (helicopter landing zone screening) | Engine::lineOfSight, computeViewshed, addContours, setTerrainSlope |
| Illumination | Sun and moon azimuth/elevation, moon phase and illumination, BMNT/BMCT/EECT/EENT and astronomical twilight, moonrise/moonset, ground illuminance in lux for NVG planning | otk/astro.hpp, otk_sun_moon_at, otk_sun_moon_times |
| UAS full-motion video | MISB ST 0601 KLV from MPEG-TS or raw KLV: sensor track, frame-centre track, image footprints (from corner points or sensor pose and field of view), line of sight; checksum validated | otk/klv.hpp, loadFeatures("flight.ts") |
| Data | CoT, TAK data packages, KML/KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON, Shapefile, CSV, WKT, GML; DTED, SRTM, GeoTIFF, NITF, CADRG/CIB through GDAL | docs/FORMATS.md |
| Disconnected operations | Persistent cache with stale-while-revalidate, unreachable-host detection, region downloads, MBTiles/GeoPackage transfer, embedded world backdrop | docs/OFFLINE.md |
| 3D | Photogrammetry and LiDAR as 3D Tiles (Draco, KTX2, .3tz), LAS point clouds, glTF models with instancing | docs/PHOTOREALISM.md |
| VR / sand table | Head-mounted rendering for OpenXR hosts, table-top scale, side-by-side stereo | docs/XR.md |
Out of scope unless a licensed implementation is supplied: tactical data links (Link 16, VMF, JREAP) and other formats with controlled specifications.