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OnX ads complaint/rant

Jammintree said:
I started off using Gaia because it was free and easy to use. I upgraded to the $30 a year membership so I could see property lines. For the last two years a couple of my buddies have hounded me to get onx so that we could share info more easily while hunting together. After reading this thread I don’t think I’ll make the switch, I’m sticking with Gaia and an old fashioned compass.
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Y’all can still share waypoints. Just copy and paste the coordinates in a text.
 
gcr0003 said:
No refund. Maybe less ads and better satellite imagery coming? View attachment 86647
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This number is the customer service text number in case any of y’all want to complain as well. I would love to see improvements but if not there are plenty of other options.
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I put in my two cents as well. Quite honestly I’ve been looking at Spartan Forge while it seems pretty good and I look forward to where it might go I’m still going to stick with OnX for now and am likely going to do the Elite so I can look at other states. Still seemed good to let them know my opinion too, squeaky wheel and all that.
 
Yeah I’ll 3rd or 4th the Garmin watch, I use mine as my daily and tracks my everything throughout the year and especially during hunting season and can be uploaded to satellite maps, I’ll use the coordinates for OnX. I have the Instinct Solar tactical it’s the bees knees, gave up my long time Suunto for this one and it’s been great. Realistically I don’t even need the phone bc of the watch, main reason why I got it was to not use the phone so much. Coupled with a compass it’s hard to beat, to my next point I know a lot of the older cats may be savvy with a compass but I feel like it’s a lost art nowadays with phones and tech being big. Being proficient with a compass is hard to beat.
 
The_Fit_Ness_Monster said:
Being proficient with a compass is hard to beat.
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I keep a compass in my bino pack. Most of the property I hunt is small enough that I generally skip the paper map, since I can just navigate North and get to the road. Last time I hunted without a compass I got turned around in snow fog, close to Lake Superior. Once I realized I was following my own footprints I headed downhill, towards the lake, until I hit a backyard, then turned southwest until I caught the access trail. A compass would have gotten me right to the access trail without stumbling into someone's backyard.
 
Iron_llama said:
I keep a compass in my bino pack. Most of the property I hunt is small enough that I generally skip the paper map, since I can just navigate North and get to the road. Last time I hunted without a compass I got turned around in snow fog, close to Lake Superior. Once I realized I was following my own footprints I headed downhill, towards the lake, until I hit a backyard, then turned southwest until I caught the access trail. A compass would have gotten me right to the access trail without stumbling into someone's backyard.
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Agreed I have a compass on my person/vicinity 100% of the time, got lost for 2 days when I was 14 in Attakapas wildlife reserve had wildlife fisheries and everybody out searching, scared the crap out of me later in life as I realized what actually all went on and what could’ve happened. So yeah, compass is my best friend.
 
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Looks like it will only appear once a day maybe? I closed out and pulled it back up and it didn’t reappear?
 
I use OnX a few times a week. Have had it for 2 or 3 years now, I think. I’ve only had those ads pop up maybe 3 or 4 times total that I can recall. Probably starting a couple months ago. Not enough to annoy me at all. I do have the higher subscription plan so I can see multiple states. Not sure if that is “elite” or not, though. And not sure if that has any bearing on seeing the ads.

I love OnX. No complaints here. $100/year very well spent in the grand scheme of things, and considering the hunting money I flush down the toilet elsewhere. Definitely one of my favorite hunting tools these days.
 
Spartan Forge will go up $10 for the year when they release the new maps including Lidar but that is still half of Onx and with a way more field user friendly platform imo. As soon as I get my Onx pins transferred, I'm cancelling it.
 
elk yinzer said:
OnX finally has leaf off imagery! Better late than never I guess.

Once again though I'm not sure how to feel about these apps.

Super convenient, yes.

Do I want to invite a bunch of new friends to my hard found thickets? Uhh, no.
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There is an awful lot of country that 90% of folks wont go too because they are lazy, scared of the dark or the critters roaming the woods at night. On smaller public stuff your point is very valid though.
 
elk yinzer said:
OnX finally has leaf off imagery! Better late than never I guess.

Once again though I'm not sure how to feel about these apps.

Super convenient, yes.

Do I want to invite a bunch of new friends to my hard found thickets? Uhh, no.
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Where are you seeing that at?
 
gcr0003 said:
Where are you seeing that at?
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There was a popup when I logged into the web version. It's a new choice under the base maps.

It wasn't available for all of the country, don't recall what all states, but PA and most of our neighboring ones were.

I haven't checked my pocket computer yet to see if it's also on the app.

I'll have to check how it applies to offline maps. Most of where I go I need those. Assume I'll have to re-download them all.
 
You guys want to here a kind of crazy onX story?

My wife really wants a fence in our yard. I really don't but that's another story and we ended up with a fencing guy in our 1/3 acre suburban yard last spring to give us a quote.

Well I know where two of our three corner pegs are, but not the far one.

So I kinda told him where I thought the line was and what does this consummate professional do but pull out his phone and pull up OnX. Bot only are the plats themselves off in some places, but just the GPS float alone in my yard could be +/- 15 feet. I explained that to him but he was a little dense about it. He was fully prepared to plop a fence down on the blue dot.
 
elk yinzer said:
There was a popup when I logged into the web version. It's a new choice under the base maps.

It wasn't available for all of the country, don't recall what all states, but PA and most of our neighboring ones were.

I haven't checked my pocket computer yet to see if it's also on the app.

I'll have to check how it applies to offline maps. Most of where I go I need those. Assume I'll have to re-download them all.
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Not seeing it for Alabama on the app.. sad
 
And to think you pay for this “experience” - every year! And every year people complain about it. LMAO.
 
OnX is a necessary evil for me. I’ve tried other hunting maps, and though I haven’t tried them all OnX is still the easiest for me and relatively inexpensive. It can be maddening sometimes for sure. It is pretty streamlined for me though just because property lines and some of the other simple features are too intuitive and I am too much a creature of habit to screw with what works for me. Do I hate ads and such? Yeah that sucks. I also don’t close the app once it’s opened and often use it in offline mode, and I only hunt one property right now. I have also enjoyed the free online hunting classes they’ve given with NDA, THP, MSU Deer Lab, and other acronyms that matter to me, and the opportunities to attend are worth the price of admission each year. plus I have a dope t-shirt from one of those classes, so for my money OnX is still king lol.
 
elk yinzer said:
You guys want to here a kind of crazy onX story?

My wife really wants a fence in our yard. I really don't but that's another story and we ended up with a fencing guy in our 1/3 acre suburban yard last spring to give us a quote.

Well I know where two of our three corner pegs are, but not the far one.

So I kinda told him where I thought the line was and what does this consummate professional do but pull out his phone and pull up OnX. Bot only are the plats themselves off in some places, but just the GPS float alone in my yard could be +/- 15 feet. I explained that to him but he was a little dense about it. He was fully prepared to plop a fence down on the blue dot.
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My wife works for the county surveyor. Every week there's somebody looking for ammunition to use in a neighbor dispute. About 2/3s of these disputes are along the lines of, "Well, I went on OnX and saw my property lines, so I cut down a bunch of mature oak trees for firewood. Now my neighbor is suing me for cutting down my own trees.... what do you mean I was a dozen yards over the property line and those were his trees?!?! But, but, but OnX said! Man, I don't want to replace a dozen 100-year-old oak trees! Where do you even buy them at??"

Go to the county surveyor's office and pull your dang survey record. If the county doesn't have a survey on file, hire a surveyor to survey your property line. The $3k or whatever you'll pay for a survey - which is a whole whack of money - is a drop in the bucket compared to a lawsuit or insurance claim because your cut-rate fence guy put your chain link through the neighbor's garden, which you will have to pay to remove, and then pay to replace.
 
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