OnX ads complaint/rant

[Glenn]

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.

Y’all can still share waypoints. Just copy and paste the coordinates in a text.

 

[Jammintree]

Y’all can still share waypoints. Just copy and paste the coordinates in a text.

the Old fashioned screen shot also goes a long way.

 

[HuskerInIowa]

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.

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.

 

[The_Fit_Ness_Monster]

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.

 

[Iron_llama]

Being proficient with a compass is hard to beat.

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.

 

[The_Fit_Ness_Monster]

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.

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.

 

[gcr0003]

Looks like it will only appear once a day maybe? I closed out and pulled it back up and it didn’t reappear?

 

[Iron_llama]

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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?

Looks to me like I won't be putting OnX on my phone. Too bad, I like the chip in my GPS.

 

[Spartan]

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.

 

[BTaylor]

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.