map.army Tutorials for Intermediate Users

You can place symbols and save a layer. These tutorials combine several tools into complete planning tasks: exercises, overlays, own maps and data, briefing products.

  1. Intermediate · 30 min Map the D-Day landings Map a historical battle: the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, with one layer per side, each division labelled with its number, corps and …
  2. Intermediate · 20 min Update the situation Bring the D-Day map up to the evening of 6 June 1944: mark a German division’s losses, give the 21st Panzer Division a more exact symbol, show its …
  3. Intermediate · 20 min Work together on a shared map Put your situation map online as a MilX Share, give viewers and editors each their own link, save new versions, follow what others change and go back …
  4. Intermediate · 15 min Add your own maps Put your own map under the overlay: a scanned paper map, a sketch, an aerial image or a map from a GIS. You fit it to the base map once and reuse the …
  5. Intermediate · 10 min Load vector layers Load a recorded GPX track into the map as a vector layer, then convert it into a MilX® march route whose points and waypoints you can edit like any …
  6. Intermediate · 15 min Organise layers Keep friendly forces, enemy forces and control measures on separate layers, put them in order, make a copy for the next phase, and lock the approved …
  7. Intermediate · 15 min Print an overlay Print your situation on transparent foil at the scale of your paper map, with two reference points so the foil lands exactly on the right grid …
  8. Intermediate · 20 min Plan a live-fire range Sketch a live-fire range for a briefing: a firing position, a ring for its reach, a Safety Distance Zone in the direction of fire, and a measurement …
  9. Intermediate · 50 min Terrain analysis (OAKOC) Work through the ground of your area of operations factor by factor and end with one layer that shows where forces can move, where they are blocked, …