ATAK (WinTAK) How to: Interior Building Maps Tutorial

[Music] hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground so we are jumping back into atac once again today and we're going to show you how to use an image overlay to get the internal map of a building so let's jump over to google maps for just a second and i'll show you what i'm talking about alright so here we are in google maps and this is inside one of my favorite locations of all time on the planet this is the smithsonian national air and space museum i picked this one because this is a nice good public place to go visit and it's pretty easy to see on the google maps so if i go over here to google maps you can see it's right here very public and if you go street view down here you can actually look on the inside of the smithsonian and walk around the museum and tour it virtually which is pretty neat but for our functions today we're going to use this museum and the the layout as sort of a proxy to show you a feature of atac so if you ever go to a place like this one of the very first things that i do is look for the fire escape exit or a map of the building now of course the smithsonian being a museum has maps that you can get from the visitor center down below but let' scape exit or a map of the building now of course the smithsonian being a museum has maps that you can get from the visitor center down below but let's just assume today that you know we've never been here before and we're walking around and lo and behold we can go around here and check and see there is a map right there so there is a map right there on the wall and look at that that's pretty neat isn't it so what we can do is zoom in and we can see all of the different exhibits and since the smithsonian has a very unique building construction this allows us to illustrate this in atac a little easier so what i can do is make sure that i'm sort of centered on it very nicely right here and i can go down to my handy dandy snipping tool and i can snip this map right here now of course i've got my icon right there in the middle of that map but you know right here so this is not an ideal version but when i import it into atac i'll show you the one that i took earlier where i actually took some time to center it what you're going to want to do is if you go into a building and you see a map on the wall take a picture of it but make sure to take it as straight on with a 90 degree angle as p do is if you go into a building and you see a map on the wall take a picture of it but make sure to take it as straight on with a 90 degree angle as possible it makes this a whole lot easier once we jump into atac so i'll go ahead and save this and we'll jump over to atac and i'll show you how this all works alright so here we are in atac and i have found the smithsonian building on the map so this uh once again i downloaded imagery ahead of time so that you can see the building now as you can see this image is not a nadir image a nader image and a dir nader imagery is taken directly straight down uh at a 90 degree angle and as most people know uh nader imagery is kind of hard to find a lot of times so as you can see here the building is kind of off off kilter a little bit this is the side of the building whereas on this side you can't see the side of a building so it's not a perfectly straight down shot but it will work for our purposes so what we're going to use is called is a tool called rubber sheets now if you're familiar with the atac app you will easily find rubber sheets as per as part of the menu dropdowns however on windtack it's actually hidden it's a hidden feature of w e atac app you will easily find rubber sheets as per as part of the menu dropdowns however on windtack it's actually hidden it's a hidden feature of wintec so it's kind of hard to find so let me show you where it's at you go to overlays and let that load for just a second once again my computer is kind of slow when running the screen capture software but here we are in in imagery overlays so what we're going to do is go to over here on overlay manager click imagery overlays as you can see i've got a couple of random ones here loaded already but what we're going to want to do is click this little edit icon and really this is the disguised button it doesn't necessarily let you edit it allows you to create kmz's from an image which is exactly what we want so we're going to click this button right here and as you can see i have the the import manager over here so what i'm going to do now is get rid of this overlay manager just so i can have a little bit more screen space and what i'm going to do is zoom out just a tad because i've already done this just to show you i'll zoom out just a tad on my image here and i'm going to go import this image so click the file and then i will load whe done this just to show you i'll zoom out just a tad on my image here and i'm going to go import this image so click the file and then i will load where it is stored in this case it's right here i actually did this try this a couple of times so we're going to load in the second attempt a little bit better of an image and you can see it's quite a large image so this drops it right on the map so what we're going to do is we're going to have to monkey around with a little bit you can drag the corners in here to reshape and resize it so i'm going to shrink it quiet down a little bit see here or my smithsonian at right there let's bring this corner in as well now we can zoom in so as you can see when that image came in it is it is very very opaque you can't see through it so i'm going to reduce that just a little bit so that i can sort of line this up and as you can tell let me bouncing this back and forth in every imagery analyst favorite thing to do balance things back and forth like this you can see that these four little alcoves here are actually on the other side so i have to flip this image around rotate it by grabbing this right here and now it's starting to look a lot a lot more re actually on the other side so i have to flip this image around rotate it by grabbing this right here and now it's starting to look a lot a lot more familiar right so let's zoom in a little bit and let's grab and see if i can match this corner to this corner of this building here let's do this we have to do this quite a few times so don't worry we're going to match up these corners you see how it's starting to take shape all right bring this one in as well and let's bring in this final one right here and let's double check make sure our corners haven't moved this one moves slightly i'm going to bring that back in just a tad and as you can see the the uh the imagery that we have does not uh it's not straight up and down it's not nader so this is this is why your your mapping is going to be slightly off so like right here i don't know if you can see this on your end but uh there's just a slight discrepancy of maybe just a couple of feet maybe a meter or so right there and also right there as well and you can see it kind of the wall is a little bit off but for you know just walking around a museum this is pretty good so let me bounce back and forth just again just to make sure that a little bit off but for you know just walking around a museum this is pretty good so let me bounce back and forth just again just to make sure that we're we're looking at the right thing here and of course if you load this into powerpoint you can crop out a lot of this gray area so that you just have the interior of the building or you can use another cropping tool whatever so i'm going to do this now what this does this tool within wintec this will create a kmz or really a kml of this image and georeference it so that you can load it into whatever else you want and in this case we're going to load it right back into wintec so what we're going to do is go over here to the bottom right and click export kmz i'm going to export it and we're going to save it wherever we're going to save it i already have this saved so i'm going to click cancel and i'm going to exit this out and boom it's going to disappear so this is kind of where you know once again as i mentioned before wintec is not exactly the the best variant of atac but it's a little handier for doing fine detailed work like this so in this case we're going to import that kmz that we just exported it doesn't keep it in wintec i tle handier for doing fine detailed work like this so in this case we're going to import that kmz that we just exported it doesn't keep it in wintec it just creates the km kmz or kml so we're going to go to our import manager this time and we're going to import a file and we're going to import that kmz right there okay we're gonna click open and in this case you have two choices here you're gonna do a kmz file or imagery i prefer a kmz file so that you can change it a little bit easier but if you're doing something like say a drone footage or you have like you know some weather balloon imagery that you get or something like that you're going to click imagery and that will import it as an image files but we're going to keep it as a kmz for now so go ahead and bring that in as you can see there it is now let's get rid of this import manager now you might be thinking hey this isn't clear it's not oh it's very opaque you can't see through it so you're going to go to your overlays and this is why having it as a kmz was was important because you can go in here and click image overlays again and there it is you can now click this button right here and change how clear it is so you can go e you can go in here and click image overlays again and there it is you can now click this button right here and change how clear it is so you can go with totally transparent so you can't see it or you can go with a little bit i i like a little a measure right there it's good for me and then that way that'll let me know i can still read this on my phone and then i can uh do whatever i need to do this is very handy you can make it if you have this is very handy if you have several of these stacked on top of each other because obviously the smithsonian is more than just one floor this is just the second floor map so you can have several of these floors in here and you can make all of them clear but one and then if you chant once you change floors you go up a floor you turn that floor off and then turn the other floor on using this sliding tool right here very handy very awesome to have and it could be very very handy so let's do this one more time and let's do this with a more something a little bit more common because let's face it a lot of the places you're going to be going to and most places most people go to don't have very handy maps they're not museums right so what about some ot of the places you're going to be going to and most places most people go to don't have very handy maps they're not museums right so what about something like a hotel so let's jump into that right quick all right so here i am on tripadvisor and i just randomly searched for a hotel and i was able to find this particular one and as you'll see on a lot of these travel websites what people will do is take a picture of the emergency evacuation plan for the hotel and show you what what the floor plan is which is very very handy for us so if you were going to this hotel i would advise you know taking a picture or or any hotel take a picture of this and then you can do this in atac so what i went ahead and did was i took a screenshot of this i dropped it in powerpoint and cropped out really the everything except for just this little bit and we can upload it in atac once again so let's jump over to that so here we are again in atac and here is the best western cotton tree in this is the particular hotel i just looked up the address converted that to a uh a gps coordinate and created a point just to so i can navigate there a little easier in wintec so let's go ahead and open up our overlay that to a uh a gps coordinate and created a point just to so i can navigate there a little easier in wintec so let's go ahead and open up our overlays and let's create that overlay right quick go to image overlays this little pencil here that hides the create kmz from image button let's select our file in this case it's this one right here that i've already cropped and let's get rid of this so that we can see what's going on here as you can see it imports it quite large so let's let's size this down a little bit and see if we can keep it kinda square because this image on um on tripadvisor was was quite uh quite a straight on image which is exactly what we're looking for whenever you're trying to take a picture of a map always take a picture of the map as as uh square on as you can alright so this one again is rotated so you can see that right there and let me go ahead and reduce the opacity over here opacity however you say that and let's start matching up corners so this one's a little easier because this image for this hotel was taken very much uh it's it's not nader because if it was nader these these telephone poles here would just be dots um it's going to be almost impossibl aken very much uh it's it's not nader because if it was nader these these telephone poles here would just be dots um it's going to be almost impossible to find a nader image but for most you know all intents and purposes most imagery you're going to find in the civilian world is going to be close close enough right so let's go ahead and start matching these corners up you can see they had a lot of new construction here or what's more likely is this fire map isn't all that accurate so this is one of the things that you're running into is that a lot of fire maps they are too scale they are to scale but they're not perfectly to scale and you'll find that out once you start uh doing this a little bit more often as you can see here there's probably a little bit of construction that corner is definitely the same because that match that matches up right there and that matches up so this was brought in a little bit and this is actually more like what it's like as you can see i'm trying to match up the corners here trying to get it as square on as i can this looks like it's the most accurate way to do it because we want the width to stay the same let's see here yeah this is about as close a n as i can this looks like it's the most accurate way to do it because we want the width to stay the same let's see here yeah this is about as close as we're going to get to an actual thing here and you can see it it opens up quite quite nicely is because you can see right here if i were to turn this overlay off you could see a door a little doorway right there which is probably way for people to get into the hotel and as you can see that lines up perfectly with the stairwell so as you can see this is a very very valuable tool for you to have and know how to do with an atac especially if you're in a hotel or traveling or or going in a building where you might not be familiar with the floor plan atac can very much help you out and if you have other people in the building as well well that just makes it all the better and you know you can't necessarily rely on google maps or something like that which are you know derivative of gps you know on wintec and atac you can choose your put your spot manually so you look on the map see what room you're outside of put your puck on the map there and that's where you are and you can figure out how to get out that way should you need to so yeah t you're outside of put your puck on the map there and that's where you are and you can figure out how to get out that way should you need to so yeah this is a very handy intelligence collection tool it's very handy for planning operations and things like that even if something as simple as traveling around or going to a museum or going to a building or something like that and it's very very handy if you're if you're doing a lot of intelligence collection and you happen to see an image where somebody has been well you can look up that location and find out what the floor plan is drop it into atac and then there you go this is now you have interior maps of a place where uh it's going to be very hard to find interior maps of so hopefully this was helpful um please drop a like comment or subscribe uh to our uh to our channel here and make sure to check out our other stuff as well for more atac videos we're going to be doing a lot more of these uh soon and uh yeah once again hopefully this was helpful and as you guys always know it make sure to fight in shape you