First time I have used mostly AI to implement a new feature in ORBAT Mapper. It is fun, but it still feels like cheating.

I've had some fun recently putting together a basic text to ORBAT tool. Try it out at orbat-mapper.app/text-to-orbat/

I recently had some fun experimenting with animations in MapLibre You can try a live demo at orbat-mapper.github.io/experiment-m... and experiment with the code at github.com/orbat-mapper...

Maplibre animation testing. Decent performance with 400 features.

Experimenting with www.lottielab.com

The Force awakens

A mine in a beautiful autumn forest.

Minefulness

Cry "Havoc!", and let slip the dogs of war. Custom unit icons research phase is now over. I now have enough information to implement this as a feature.

Small unit tactics

Upcoming feature. Render unit labels below the unit symbol instead of as part of the symbol. A nice side effect is automatic label de-cluttering.

New feature added to the KML/KMZ exporter: export selected units only

ORBAT Mapper's KML/KMZ exporter now has an option for rendering symbol text modifiers. A niche feature, but useful when you need it.

Für mein Exocet im Falklandkrieg Video habe ich das erste Mal @orbatmapper.bsky.social benutzt. Wenn auch in bescheidenem Maße.
Das hat mich sehr gefreut, weil ich vor Jahren wegen einer Falkland Karte auf Orbat Mappet aufmerksam geworden bin 😃

Probably the closest symbol in MILSTD 2525/APP-6 😀. There is a horse there somewhere, but the pack animal symbol is better, even if it has two humps

Someone should create and post the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade ORBAT. #ORBATBoys I'm curious which unit symbol you would use for the 265th (Camel) Machine Gun Squadron.

@baguettetraductor.bsky.social I see from earlier posts that you have already tried battle staff tools. I may have misunderstood your question. You can try to set last level layout to "Stacked" as shown in the screen shot.

I recommend trying spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/ for this. You can export your ORBAT from ORBAT Mapper and use it in Battle Staff Tools docs.orbat-mapper.app/guide/export...

Nice ORBAT! Thank you for sharing. It is unfortunately not possible to arrange symbols in a top-bottom arrangement yet. I will probably add this in the future, but I'm currently working on other parts of the application.

I broke navigation on mobile unfortunately . Should be fixed now.

I recently upgraded ORBAT Mapper to use Tailwind 4. Let me know if I broke something.

Some users have reported issues with KMZ export after this change. I've temporarily reverted the changes until I have time to do some debugging.

GitHub - GoogleChromeLabs/browser-fs-access: File System Access API with legacy fallback in the browser File System Access API with legacy fallback in the browser - GoogleChromeLabs/browser-fs-access

The file system access API can be quite useful when working with local files. I highly recommend the browser-fs-access package github.com/GoogleChrome... if you want to try it out in your projects.

The file system access API allows you to load from and save directly to files on you local file system. Currently only supported by Chrome and Edge. I've only implemented the save to file part. I need to experiment more with the API before I'll add more features from it.

feat: implement file system access API for file export in supported b… · orbat-mapper/orbat-mapper@4783aec …rowsers Closes #261

I've taken a short break from ORBAT Mapper to work on other projects. I'm still focusing on the other projects, but I've started to add features to ORBAT Mapper based on what I've learned github.com/orbat-mapper...

Whats up with the armypubs web site? I've almost never been able to download any publication from there.

This is my favorite kind of article 😍 Thank you for mentioning my tool in the references section.

Got tired of searching for units in the ORBAT panel, so I added a button and a keyboard shortcut "l" to jump straight to the active unit. #dogfooding

New panel for selecting units by symbol icon is now available for testing. Expect bugs.

More unit selection experiments. This time based on the 2525/APP6 symbol identification code.