Outfitter Spartanforge, is anyone using it and what is your opinion?

[MN_Bowhunter4]

I got the app and logged on. What is it supposed to do?! I dropped a pin and downloaded a map, can’t figure out how to delete the map. The graphs, I can barely read with the background transparency.

It basically looks like google maps to me, but with a journal and pin options?

I’ve gotten zero emails or messages about it since I started the trial.

 

[Chimney7]

I got the app and logged on. What is it supposed to do?! I dropped a pin and downloaded a map, can’t figure out how to delete the map. The graphs, I can barely read with the background transparency.

It basically looks like google maps to me, but with a journal and pin options?

I’ve gotten zero emails or messages about it since I started the trial.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that had a hard time with the graphs. I’m not going to pretend like I really understand what I’m looking at with the wind graph.

 

[MN_Bowhunter4]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that had a hard time with the graphs. I’m not going to pretend like I really understand what I’m looking at with the wind graph.

Google wind rose. That’s what I did and it makes sense now. Basically just shows how often and how strong the wind is coming from X direction over whatever period of time.

 

[mattsteg]

I logged into the app no problem. Also no problem logging into the website version. First impression is meh. the map I’m seeing is over six years old. I can tell by looking at my house. I’ve lived here for six years and that’s not my car parked outside, and the landscaping is different. Also no property lines like onX.

All of these apps source their imagery from the same handful of generally freely-available datasets (it's the server space and bandwidth to serve them up that cost) and package them in a convenient package for you. When people say "this app has newer data than that one" it's usually just a matter of which data provider has most recently updated their local imagery. A lot of the best stuff is collected by state and local governments and made freely available. Obviously these apps make things a lot easier - especially in the field. That ease of use is what apps sell. They (with the exception of their AI stuff) don't have proprietary data.

If you really want to nerd out and do e.g. digital scouting on the PC and want to bother with navigating the state/local/federal sources there's almost always a "better map" for your area. To what extent that matters, usually not much - unless you're looking for e.g. fresh cutovers and other recent changes.

What's perpetually disappointing to me is that I haven't found any apps that really try to provide the best data - especially with topo data. There's no technological reason that apps can't high-res topo with like 1-2ft contours which can be quite handy in flatter terrains. It's typically some joke like 10ft or worse.

 

[Chimney7]

If you really want to nerd out

I do. I really do. I have loved maps since my dad gave me my first usgs topo map as a kid.

I hear you about being disappointed. I try not to be, because if you would have told ten year old me about google earth I wouldn’t have believed how amazing it is. But for all the amazing-ness of modern mapping technology it could always be better!

 

[MN_Bowhunter4]

The website talks about different layers for the map but I’m not seeing how to change those. Am I just plain overlooking them?

 

[wyetterp]

Mines back to letting me log in as well. Looks a little different but no extra data or maps.

Where are y'all finding the app? I can't find it for android.

 

[Westdesign03]

Just downloaded the app too. Maybe there is more coming that isn’t in this first release. Seems like maybe they laid the foundation for more features but I guess we’ll see. I can see myself referencing the forecast data and that’s about it so far. Everything else seems maybe unfinished at the moment.


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[Westdesign03]

Are the wind rows in the app like on the web page? If so I’m not finding them.


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[Westdesign03]

Wherever you point the crosshairs on the map, if you look at the forecast data, it shows the data for wherever that crosshairs is sitting. That’s pretty cool to me.


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[jtw0057]

The website talks about different layers for the map but I’m not seeing how to change those. Am I just plain overlooking them?

You swipe left or right on the compass at the bottom left and there’s like 6 different layers.

Also Garret at the DIY sportsman dropped a video on the app explaining how to use it and what else to expect in the future.


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[CZMark]

I'll continue to stay as far from AI as I can.

 

[MN_Bowhunter4]

You swipe left or right on the compass at the bottom left and there’s like 6 different layers.

Also Garret at the DIY sportsman dropped a video on the app explaining how to use it and what else to expect in the future.


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Would have never found that function. Thanks! I have that video queued up to watch in the AM!

 

[Westdesign03]

Are the wind rows in the app like on the web page? If so I’m not finding them.


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Never mind this comment. Had my terms mixed up.


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[ShooterMike]

I like the app MUCH more than the desktop version. I also have DeerCast and like it too. I think the mapping features on the SF App are useful. Almost … almost …. Takes the place of Hunt Stand ( I tried OnX a few times, but just couldn’t get the “feel” of it)

The one thing that MUST be changed with the mobile app is the background imaging. It’s impossible to read some of the text. It’s so lightly colored snd small that it disappears on the background image. The image isn’t necessary. The content is.

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[philsanchez76]

Main thing that weirds me out is my desktop version is showing totally different predictions than my app version. That’s not cool. Which one is right?!

 

[Aeds151]

Trash


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[Chimney7]

You swipe left or right on the compass at the bottom left and there’s like 6 different layers.

Also Garret at the DIY sportsman dropped a video on the app explaining how to use it and what else to expect in the future.


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Never would have found this either. Thanks!

 

[Zero One Actual]

Apparently it is now released on the app stores. I’m going to try it out. I see some thinks it’s trash. Others seem to be intrigued. I can already tell it isn’t trash for sure. I run OnX and will run them side by side and see what happens. I’m sure if the hunting public or other well known hunting groups with social media followings start using it and talking about it, it will get more popular.

I don’t understand how if something just came out and people haven’t even tested it out how they can already know it’s awesome or garbage? We all try out saddles and platforms and packs. Apps are the same to me. I don’t use certain ones and I use others.

May as well try this out this season.

 

[MN_Bowhunter4]

That’s my plan. My trial ended yesterday, but apparently in got extended a week with the launch or something? I’m gonna play around with it and see what it has to offer. I’ve spent $20 on dumber things.