Evac Zone v0.6
Evacuation zones from the agencies that publish them, drawn in one status color language.
01 What it does
Evacuation zones on the ATAK map, from the services that publish them: state emergency management agencies, CAL FIRE, and the counties and cities that run their own zone maps. Browsed by state, then by county, the way Cam Depot browses cameras, and drawn in one color language whatever the source calls a status: Order red, Warning yellow, Advisory blue, Shelter in Place purple, Lifted green, Normal faint.
Technical details features in full, requirements, network
Features in full
Capabilities
- A catalog of evacuation services, read from a hosted file so sources can be added, corrected or retired without a plugin release. Every entry is probed by the catalog builder before it is published.
- Pick a state; its statewide feeds are always listed. Pick one or many counties; each shows its share of the statewide feeds ("Monterey in Active Evacuation Zones: Order 8, Warning 4") and the county's own sources.
- Every county of a state is in the picker, from the Census, whether or not anyone publishes a layer for it, with a box to frame it.
- Zones are ATAK feature layers: tap one for its full attributes, and the zone's name is drawn at its center. Live sources refresh on their own interval and survive an ATAK restart from their cached store.
- Cam Depot's visibility tools: a radius from the operator or the map center, in the operator's own units, and a zoom threshold quoted in scale-bar terms.
- A zone list: search by id, name or county, narrow by status with counts, nearest first with distances, Go to and details per zone.
- Each row says what it costs before it is used (feature counts, lag notes) and what is not shown (outside the radius, hidden by the zoom threshold).
Coverage grows the way Cam Depot's did: built and tested in California, with Oregon, British Columbia, two Florida counties and North Carolina's coastal counties from public data. If your state or county publishes evacuation zones and they are not here, point us at the data through the issue tracker below and they go into the catalog without a plugin release.
A step-by-step user guide lives at docs/USER_GUIDE.md in the repository (excluded from the source submission zip).
Equipment required
Android device supported by ATAK-CIV 5.6, 5.7 or 5.8, with internet access for the sources that are on. Storage is a few megabytes per source.
Works with
Any Android device supported by ATAK. No additional or external hardware, no sensors, no peripherals.
Network and security
(This is important for ATO, networking, and other security concerns)
Outbound TCP 443 (HTTPS) only. Read-only GET requests, no credentials, no cookies, a static User-Agent. Nothing about the device or the operator is sent: no location, no callsign, no identifiers.
Hosts
- mapdepot.takwerx.org, for the catalog (one small JSON file, read at plugin start). If it is unreachable the copy built into the APK is used.
- The public ArcGIS FeatureServers the catalog lists, only for sources the operator turns on: services.arcgis.com and services1 through services9 .arcgis.com (state and county ArcGIS Online organizations), and gis.napacounty.gov. Each is polled on its own interval, five minutes for live sources, daily for static zone boundaries. Plaintext (http) catalog entries are refused.
No inbound ports. No listening sockets. No traffic to or from the TAK server, and no CoT is generated or consumed. With no network the plugin draws what it last fetched and says how old it is.
02 User manual
Download the PDF · The same manual ships inside the plugin, under ATAK’s Tool Preferences.