Born from a real problem
in the field.

A precision shooter from CQ Land Management was spending more time trying to cross-reference approved land boundaries from memory using Google Maps on his phone. With no offline maps and no cadastral overlays, tracking operating borders from the air was a constant guessing game. He needed a single, offline screen showing parcel boundaries, hazards, and real-time position.

K-Tech Labs partnered with CQLM to build TacTrax to solve this problem. Today, CQLM utilises the platform across their entire operations — from culling and drone spraying tracking to fence management and land administration. Built for the field, tested by the operators on the ground.

Australian geospatial data is public, but it is scattered. Cadastral parcels sit in one state portal, powerline corridors in another, marine park zoning in a federal ArcGIS service, trails in OpenStreetMap. Every operator ends up stitching them together by hand, or working without them.

TacTrax aggregates 47 map layers across 8 categories into a single tactical map, cached for offline use, with live GPS and mission tooling on top. The full list is published in the layer catalogue — generated directly from the shipping layer registry, so it cannot drift from what the app actually loads.

Position is the other half. Phone GPS reports at 1 Hz; TacTrax runs a Kalman filter with CTRV turn prediction to estimate position between fixes at 5 Hz, and falls back to IMU dead reckoning when the satellite fix degrades or drops out. Satellite count, accuracy and a NO FIX warning stay on the HUD, because an operator should always know how much to trust the dot.

TacTrax is an Australian product and its operational data stays in Australia. The application database and the recordings store both run in Google Cloud's australia-southeast1 (Sydney) region. Recordings and mission data belong to the account that created them, and can be exported or deleted from within the app at any time.

TacTrax is developed by a small engineering team alongside the operators who use it. Features get built because someone needed them in a paddock, not because they tested well in a deck. That partnership with CQLM is the reason the modes look the way they do — seven of them, each a different job rather than a different skin.

We are deliberate about what TacTrax is not. It is a situational-awareness and planning aid. It is not a navigation instrument, and it is not for emergency response or any safety-of-life purpose — the terms of service say so plainly, and we would rather be clear about the boundary than quietly imply otherwise.