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OnX ads complaint/rant

Iron_llama said:
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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We're still at an impasse on the fence situation. I proactively planted some arbor vitae. I know within a couple feet of where the property line is, good enough for that purpose. I was kinda playing with the guy, once he pulled onx up.
 
elk yinzer said:
We're still at an impasse on the fence situation. I proactively planted some arbor vitae. I know within a couple feet of where the property line is, good enough for that purpose. I was kinda playing with the guy, once he pulled onx up.
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Don't get me wrong, I use the OnX chip on my Garmin to flag the trees near my property line and hang No Tresspassing signs. But I know it's not precise. I also know where the survey stakes are and can use a lensatic compass to extrapolate with a reasonable degree of comfort. And planted several hundred acorns along my property line... reading up on osage orange I'm going to buy a hedge apple and try to get some seeds from it to plant in the spring, along another property line. Apparently it can grow 2-3 yards the first year and can be trained into a thorny, impenetrable living fence. That you can cut bow staves and fenceposts from.
 
Iron_llama said:
Don't get me wrong, I use the OnX chip on my Garmin to flag the trees near my property line and hang No Tresspassing signs. But I know it's not precise. I also know where the survey stakes are and can use a lensatic compass to extrapolate with a reasonable degree of comfort. And planted several hundred acorns along my property line... reading up on osage orange I'm going to buy a hedge apple and try to get some seeds from it to plant in the spring, along another property line. Apparently it can grow 2-3 yards the first year and can be trained into a thorny, impenetrable living fence. That you can cut bow staves and fenceposts from.
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The osage, hedge apples are great for a fence/border. In the old days they would get thousands of those hedge apples and put them in a big container and let them rot some and add water. Then they would cut a trench where they wanted the fence and pour that hedge apple slurry in there and cover it over, so I am told.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
The osage, hedge apples are great for a fence/border. In the old days they would get thousands of those hedge apples and put them in a big container and let them rot some and add water. Then they would cut a trench where they wanted the fence and pour that hedge apple slurry in there and cover it over, so I am told.
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I've read about that. I don't think I'm willing to pay for enough hedge apples at the grocery store to try that approach, but I can let one rot / stratify over the winter and harvest the seeds in the spring.
 
Lol, people still talking about the stuff SF is going to come out with. Don’t hold your breath.

I don’t recall seeing adds on my OnX, I have the paid version. I have an iPhone 6 and have no problems other than getting service sometimes, easily remedied by downloading the offline maps. I personally think it’s one of the best tools I’m my box.
 
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Tr33_n1nj@ said:
Lol, people still talking about the stuff SF is going to come out with. Don’t hold your breath.

I don’t recall seeing adds on my OnXi have the paid version. I have an iPhone 6 and have no problems other than getting service sometimes, easily remedied by downloading the offline maps. I personally think it’s one of the best tools I’m my box.
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Come to the light… the spartan forge light
 
BackSpasm said:
Come to the light… the spartan forge light
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I did, and was promised that I’d see all kinds of wonderful things if I just kept paying for them to be developed. But I never did see those things, just more empty promises.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
 
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Both SF and OnX have upside, neither is perfect and that stinks because it's tempting to buy both.
 
I have GAIA and added SF a couple months back. SF is awesome for hunting. I use GAIA a LOT for work. GAIA also shows up with Apple Car Play so I use it as my base map. MVUM layer is great for NF and private ownership is always good to know.
 
gcr0003 said:
My frustrations have been growing with OnX for some years now because what I felt was a lack of quality of maps compared to may other mapping apps (Garmin, Gaia etc.). I have stuck with them because I do enjoy the ease of use and features like line distance, area shape, and more recently their wind direction and waypoint radius that can be applied to a given waypoint. It has also been nice to seamlessly share information between buddies I hunt with. What really grinds my gears though is that I pay $20-30 for a premium services a year from their app and they still prompt me to rate their app or show me ads to buy junk every time I open the app. To me, if I’m paying for this app it shouldn’t come with ads and prompts.

One of the more annoying things in general about mapping apps when scouting was the need to stop and pull out the phone, open the app, take a picture of the deer sign, drop the pin, etc. If you scout much at all half the day will be taken up dropping pins. I was always trying to make that process quicker. Now consider every time you open the app this pops up View attachment 86630and you have one more useless thing to click out of. It’s very frustrating to me. For a lot of my scouting I have went to marking locations with my Garmin gps watch which is very quick. Then I’ll transfer that data to OnX later. It makes scouting faster. All of that said, I still think it’s frustrating to pay for premium and get bombarded with crappy ads and rate my product prompts? Rant complete.
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A G R E E …..its bull


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I can't stand how poor the performance is on android. Have the latest and greatest 24 Ultra and it runs like a turtle
 
OnX is having a deep dive on Content Management tomorrow May 7th at 8pm I registered for it. It may assist with some of your questions. I know I have plenty as well.
 
OnX has weird visible aerial seams in my area that, while superior to Spartan Forge, are generally inferior to HuntStand. There's also swaths without topo info that are... actually, pretty hilly. To be fair on that point, only CalTopo has those areas as far as know.
 
I’m going to get OnX before the next hunting season simply so that I can interface with my hunting buddies. But I’ll continue to rely on Gaia for all my personal mapping, scouting, navigating and all the important stuff.
 
I have been using GAIA for years and am a huge fan. It's front end ease of use is quick and convenient and it does not have all the unnecessary (IMO) bells and whistles. It is a quick click to add a waypoint and I can quickly add descriptors or adjust the waypoint icon and color. I don't really need a thousand different icons, when I scout I am looking for a few key pieces of intel that I mark. I really just need an accurate GPS with offline capabilities, route tracking and waypoints. I know everyones approach to scouting is different but this suits mine perfectly. I agree with the earlier comments about not wasting time with ads and pop ups. I turn my tracker on and walk, I don't think about it too much until I see something to mark then I want a quick interaction with my app and back to walking. Another nice thing with GAIA is you pay the subscription fee for all maps in the USA not just one state. When I have had issues their customer service team has been receptive and communicated quickly.

I share waypoints with my brother who uses ONX and I just have to make sure when I export it that I save it in the file format that the importing app uses. GAIA gives an option to share a waypoint as a snapshot/screenshot, a clickable link, or as a file. The file can be saved as a GPX, KML or GeoJSON for use with other apps. I would think that other apps besides GAIA offer this you just have to dig a little.
 
NWPA22 said:
I have been using GAIA for years and am a huge fan. It's front end ease of use is quick and convenient and it does not have all the unnecessary (IMO) bells and whistles. It is a quick click to add a waypoint and I can quickly add descriptors or adjust the waypoint icon and color. I don't really need a thousand different icons, when I scout I am looking for a few key pieces of intel that I mark. I really just need an accurate GPS with offline capabilities, route tracking and waypoints. I know everyones approach to scouting is different but this suits mine perfectly. I agree with the earlier comments about not wasting time with ads and pop ups. I turn my tracker on and walk, I don't think about it too much until I see something to mark then I want a quick interaction with my app and back to walking. Another nice thing with GAIA is you pay the subscription fee for all maps in the USA not just one state. When I have had issues their customer service team has been receptive and communicated quickly.

I share waypoints with my brother who uses ONX and I just have to make sure when I export it that I save it in the file format that the importing app uses. GAIA gives an option to share a waypoint as a snapshot/screenshot, a clickable link, or as a file. The file can be saved as a GPX, KML or GeoJSON for use with other apps. I would think that other apps besides GAIA offer this you just have to dig a little.
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this is exactly my experience with Gaia. I need to figure out how to export and share waypoints the way you are suggesting. That would solve my communication issues with hunting buddies.
 
Jammintree said:
this is exactly my experience with Gaia. I need to figure out how to export and share waypoints the way you are suggesting. That would solve my communication issues with hunting buddies.
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When in your app click the waypoint you want to share, it will bring up a Marked Location box. Click the 3 dots next to the waypoint item in that screen and click share. That should show you the 3 sharing types. I think ONX uses GPX or KML.
 
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