A Camera That Needs a Password Can Never Be Handed to ATAK Directly
Maps 35,944 public cameras and re-publishes any of them as a stream ATAK, VLC or a recorder can open. The format ATAK uses for video has nowhere to put a username, which decides almost everything else about how it works.
Every state highway agency publishes its traffic cameras. So do wildfire lookout networks, the National Park Service, and a handful of city transport departments. This collects 35,944 of them onto one map, lets you lasso a stretch of road or a fire perimeter, and exports the selection to ATAK as a data package with a marker and a working video feed for each camera.
Try the browser preview — Arlington and Northern Virginia, 785 cameras, no install. Your browser fetches each picture straight from the agency that publishes it, so which camera you opened never reaches my server.

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