
Introducing the Self Serve Channels Tool
Join or leave read-only channels for open statewide data, like aircraft over Colorado and USGS stream gauges, right from your COTAK account.
COTAK.gov is down for security patches.CloudTAK, iTAK, ATAK, & TAK Server remain unimpacted. Monitor status.cotak.gov for updates or open CloudTAK at map.cotak.gov.
COTAK puts your responders, your mutual-aid partners and live statewide data on a shared map. Free for every Colorado public safety agency.

COTAK is Colorado’s free real-time location service for public safety. Everyone enrolled sees themselves, their team and other agencies on the same map, on any device.
Any Colorado public safety agency: law enforcement, fire, EMS, search and rescue and emergency management.
Nothing. COTAK is free for every Colorado public safety agency, and the TAK apps are free in the app stores.
CloudTAK on the web, iPhone and Android. Teams on ATAK, iTAK and WinTAK connect to the same server.
Only people in the channels you turn on. Your agency’s administrators decide which channels exist and who is in them.


Your responders work in CloudTAK, the app for web, iPhone and Android. COTAK is the secure statewide system behind it that connects every agency. Teams on ATAK, iTAK and WinTAK connect too.
Open it on a phone or in a browser. Everyone shows up on the same map, updated in real time.

Shared channels put neighboring departments on one picture, like patching radio channels.
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Aircraft, 800+ CDOT cameras, stream gauges, wildfire dispatch and CAD.

Your agency decides who sees what.

Ask for COTAK for your agency.
Set up your admins, channels and data feeds.
Invite the people on your team.
Open CloudTAK on a phone or the web and go.

Join or leave read-only channels for open statewide data, like aircraft over Colorado and USGS stream gauges, right from your COTAK account.

CloudTAK now has a dark mode and new basemaps, including the Commander map and the COTREX trails and topo map.

More than 150 public safety professionals met at the first COTAK Summit to share what works in the field and build relationships across agencies.
The help center, FAQs and the rest of cotak.gov will be back once security patching is complete.
Check the status pageCheck with your agency administrator, or open a support ticket and we will look it up for you.
No. CloudTAK runs in a web browser and on the phone you already carry, and the TAK apps are free downloads.
COTAK needs only a weak cell signal. Where there is none, satellite-to-phone service, mesh radios or Starlink can carry the connection.
Location history is kept according to the COTAK data retention policy, which signed-in users can read on cotak.gov.