Tips and Tricks for Tactical Map Planning

Beyond the basics. Workflow shortcuts that save time once you know them, advanced recipes that combine several tools into a single move, and small pieces of practical wisdom collected from the planners and exercise staff who use map.army every day. Make the app work the way you do.

This section collects advanced recipes for readers who already know the basics of map.army. It shows how tools combine: you draw a route in an external tool such as Google My Maps and take it over as a MilX layer, as described in Tactical Route Planning in map.army, or you add your own WMTS or WMS service as a base map, as described in Connect Your Own Map Service to map.army. Start with the topic closest to your daily work.

Draw an operation overlay with control measures

Draw a company attack overlay in map.army: boundaries, phase line, axis of advance, objective, assembly area and obstacle, labelled and ready for the order.

Tactical Route Planning in map.army

Plan complex tactical routes — draft in Google My Maps, import the KML into map.army as a MilX layer, then add MIL-STD-2525 symbology on top.

Connect Your Own Map Service to map.army

Use your own WMTS or WMS service as the base map in map.army by passing a mapType parameter in the link — every property, worked examples and the limits.