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Military Cartography Tools QGIS 4 compatibility
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Yes — Military Cartography Tools supports QGIS 4 (declared max version 4.99.0).
Military cartography, MIL-STD-2525D/E and APP-6D/E tactical graphics, MGRS, and terrain analysis tools for QGIS. Runs fully offline - no external services, no data ever leaves your machine.
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Military Cartography Tools (MCT) is a QGIS plugin providing tools for military mapping, including MIL-STD-2525D/E and APP-6D/E tactical graphics (control measures and entity symbols, drawn as real QGIS symbology rather than stamped images, so they scale and print correctly at any map scale, with a per-layer edition switch to choose which standard a symbology layer is built against), MGRS coordinate handling, military grid generation, layout automation, coordinate conversion, cartographic utilities, terrain analysis (illuminated contours, hypsometric tint, line of sight, combined hillshade, and viewshed/dead-ground analysis), and navigation/production tools (bearing/range, GPX/KML waypoint import/export, and batch print-sheet generation tiling a large area). Every tool runs entirely offline against local data - GDAL/QGIS Processing, a bundled World Magnetic Model, and your own DEM - with no external services, API calls, or telemetry of any kind, making it suitable for use with sensitive or classified data.
| Author | Praveen Kumar |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 2,233 |
| Latest version | 1.4.1 |
| Last updated | 2026-09-19 (26 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.44.0 |
| Max QGIS | 4.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | Yes |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Categories | Cartography & layout, Raster & terrain, Coordinates & projections |
| Tags | utm, layout, mgrs, mapping, coordinates, military, cartography, grid, dem, terrain, line of sight, hillshade, offline, viewshed, kml, bearing, range, waypoints, gpx, print layout, app-6, tactical graphics, mil-std-2525, control measures, nato, symbology, app-6e, mil-std-2525e |
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