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Hunt Stand vs On X

parkersdad said:
X2 on this. I have had them all and Gaia is the best in my opinion. They have off line maps that are easier to use than the others and you get every states public land in the yearly fee of 25.00 I think. The user interface is also easier in my opinion
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Will Gaia import Onxhunt info?
 
Does Gaia have a trial version? I use Huntstand and like that it comes with all states GIS info for the same price, OnX charged per state when I looked into it, hunting multiple states was cheaper with Huntstand. OnX is marketed way better, but I have had run in with boundary information being incorrect too, they don't care once they have your money it is your problem.
 
I also like Huntstand. I use the paid option and use all the marking options for features, sightings harvests, stands. I also like the way it will forecast wind direction over time on a stand that you have marked or where you drop a pin. I am surprised in the accuracy where I hunt, however I have realistic expectations of weather forecasts. With the paid version there are a lot of map options. The only down side is that when you center map on your location it zooms out and then you have to zoom back in again, not the end of the world just irritating.
 
You can import ONX points to GAIA and vice versa, but you would never want to go the other way. Additionally, you can export each point as an kml and lay them out over Google Earth, which technically I think you can do with ONX too, but GAIA is better.

If you are used to the topo feature in ON X then you will want to use topo lines overlay + shaded relief - and what's cool is you have the ability to vary the opacity of each. I also like the "national map" b/c it has good topo and adds names of things. You can alter the opacity of various maps such as USFS 2016, GAIA topo, and Historic USGS maps and this will sometimes, as it has for me, reveal old trails or trails that are on one map, but not the other. This has, on more than one occasion helped me find some amazing brook trout waters and/or helped keep me from having to bushwhack the whole way. I had a buddy that sent me an ONX trail and it was literally 50 yards from an old abandoned FS road, but he didn't know it was there. His exact quote was "only do this if you are feeling adventurous. When I told him I found an FS logging rd that paralleled his DIY Bushwhacked trail, he was demoralized, because he thought he found some hidden gem.

Change is hard, but once you get the hang of GAIA, ONX will be a distant memory. You can also share way points, etc. I only keep my onx subscription, because some of my buddies are old obstinate fellas that resist change, and this way they can still share waypoints, trails, intel, etc with me.

One other neat feature in GAIA - importing CalTopo Slope Angle Shading. This basically creates a heat map of the topo - I know we can all read topo lines, but this adds another level of interpolation. The red areas are really steep, like cliffs, Black areas are vertical, but then you can see where it changes from orange to yellow it's more passable and it has helped me identify small micro saddles in otherwise really steep terrain.

On our season opener I found such a spot, set up on it, and within an hour I had a 300# bear strolling in. Of course the wind hated my guts that afternoon, but when I went back another time there was another bear, but I bumped him out.

OK, in case you can't tell, I like GAIA GPS. Backcountry it has literally saved my a** more than a few times.
 
splatek said:
You can import ONX points to GAIA and vice versa, but you would never want to go the other way. Additionally, you can export each point as an kml and lay them out over Google Earth, which technically I think you can do with ONX too, but GAIA is better.

If you are used to the topo feature in ON X then you will want to use topo lines overlay + shaded relief - and what's cool is you have the ability to vary the opacity of each. I also like the "national map" b/c it has good topo and adds names of things. You can alter the opacity of various maps such as USFS 2016, GAIA topo, and Historic USGS maps and this will sometimes, as it has for me, reveal old trails or trails that are on one map, but not the other. This has, on more than one occasion helped me find some amazing brook trout waters and/or helped keep me from having to bushwhack the whole way. I had a buddy that sent me an ONX trail and it was literally 50 yards from an old abandoned FS road, but he didn't know it was there. His exact quote was "only do this if you are feeling adventurous. When I told him I found an FS logging rd that paralleled his DIY Bushwhacked trail, he was demoralized, because he thought he found some hidden gem.

Change is hard, but once you get the hang of GAIA, ONX will be a distant memory. You can also share way points, etc. I only keep my onx subscription, because some of my buddies are old obstinate fellas that resist change, and this way they can still share waypoints, trails, intel, etc with me.

One other neat feature in GAIA - importing CalTopo Slope Angle Shading. This basically creates a heat map of the topo - I know we can all read topo lines, but this adds another level of interpolation. The red areas are really steep, like cliffs, Black areas are vertical, but then you can see where it changes from orange to yellow it's more passable and it has helped me identify small micro saddles in otherwise really steep terrain.

On our season opener I found such a spot, set up on it, and within an hour I had a 300# bear strolling in. Of course the wind hated my guts that afternoon, but when I went back another time there was another bear, but I bumped him out.

OK, in case you can't tell, I like GAIA GPS. Backcountry it has literally saved my a** more than a few times.
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How well does the GPS work in GAIA? In OnxHunt, I have been sitting in a tree and my position has moved back and forth within a 60 foot box.
 
I have both OnX and HuntStand, if I just had OnX I would have been lost on my last out of state trip. 2 miles back with no service and OnX wouldn’t load my downloaded maps, but my free version of HuntStand did and helped me figure out where the closest road was. I’ll always keep both just in case something like that were to happen again but I hands down prefer HuntStand
 
I see GAIA accesses the compass in my phone and displays it. Do the others do this? Onxhunt, I cannot find it.
 
BaseMap fan here too. Cheaper and way more layers. Allows you to see more foliage during different times of the year.
 
bj139 said:
I see GAIA accesses the compass in my phone and displays it. Do the others do this? Onxhunt, I cannot find it.
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BaseMap does have it and also shows which direction you are pointed.

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Top arrow is gps pointing N and I was in my my living room pointing my phone S. I can click the top N arrow and it will automatically turn my map view with N point to top of phone screen.
 
Has anyone migrated from Huntstand to Basemap? I am going to try the free version of Basemap and GAIA. I downloaded GAIA and can see how it would be nice out west however I am not sure it would have advantages for me in NH.
 
My OnX Indiana map has private/public layering. It can be turned on and off in the "My Layer" menu. I cannot speak to other state mapping subscriptions in relevance to private/public layering. One thing I find frustrating about OnX, at least with my subscription, is having to log out and log in to get the latest weather update. It doesn't auto update while my app is running.
 
I hunted yesterday and started Onxhunt and GAIA. I tried to save a waypoint. Onxhunt did not respond to the save and I went to GAIA and saved it in a second. Onxhunt did save it, it was just slow. Then Onxhunt crashed and GAIA was still very responsive. I like fast software. GAIA even has an integrated compass and it just defaults to show your direction of travel. I wish I could see the more detailed maps in GAIA before paying but based on responsiveness of the software I am sold on GAIA. I think I will join today.
 
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