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Onx app worth it?

My Garmin 64st's battery draining self has been relocated to the bottom of my pack since I started using OnX. Right now, you can get OnX for $17.99 a year.
 
patriotoutlaw said:
My Garmin 64st's battery draining self has been relocated to the bottom of my pack since I started using OnX. Right now, you can get OnX for $17.99 a year.
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I have a 64ST and my batteries go from fully charged to dead randomly. Not a good look for a GPS. Haven't tried a firmware update because like you mine gets left behind now that I use GAIA. Not to mention the Birds Eye app you need to use to upload maps is clunky
 
EricS said:
I use hunt stand because the areas I hunt don’t update property lines and ownership enough to warrant the extra features of a paid membership. When I go out west I use onx but I don’t get to go often so only purchase them for the years I go.
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@EricS i heard that HuntStand is integrating trail cam photos now? Can you confirm? Cuz that’s pretty slick. I wish OnX would do that.
 
Awesome input from everyone, I guess it will be my next hunt related purchase. Thank you all.
 
Rob309 said:
Awesome input from everyone, I guess it will be my next hunt related purchase. Thank you all.
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Make sure you use a coupon code, there's a few floating out there for 20% off. Half off for military.

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Fror true cyber scouting, I strongly prefer a combo of Caltopo, Google Earth Pro, and Hillmap - each has certain functions I utilize that OnX does NOT have. For "in the field use", however, I rely primarily on OnX for two specific purposes.
  1. To understand landowners info in case I want to knock on a door (have but rarely)
  2. To understand public land boundaries - the 3 sites above won't do that and several areas I hunt have private land 'in holdings' so understanding the boundaries can keep you out of hot water
My thoughts - if neither of the two above are important to you, you might find better options for cyber scouting. You mention hunting 2 states, so if item #2 comes into play, I'd definitely go for it.

I live in less than 2.5-3.0 hours from public land in AR, MS, TN, KY, IL, MO, so I pay for the 'all 50 state plan'. I've seen it on CamoFire special for $59 (all 50 states) twice in the past 3-4 weeks, so if you subscribe and watch their sales, you might get a decent deal. The 1 state deal is a good bit less, depending on your needs.
 
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onXmaps is worth way more than the $17/year I pay for it with the camofire sale. I have set hundreds of waypoints on National Forest over the past few years. Backtracking using the Tracker feature makes it much easier finding my way back to the truck at night after hunting a new spot way back in the mountains.
 
OnX is absolutely worth it. Probably one of the best features is being able to use the off-grid mode and save your phone battery. You just download a map section of your areas and use the off-grid mode. Then flip your phone to Airplane mode and OnX still works. Once you learn to do this, it’s a game changer. I hiked 4 days on Isle Royale and used OnX for all the trails this way, the accuracy was awesome and my phone battery lasted for days.




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dpierce72 said:
Fror true cyber scouting, I strongly prefer a combo of Caltopo, Google Earth Pro, and Hillmap - each has certain functions I utilize that OnX does NOT have. For "in the field use", however, I rely primarily on OnX for two specific purposes.
  1. To understand landowners info in case I want to knock on a door (have but rarely)
  2. To understand public land boundaries - the 3 sites above won't do that and several areas I hunt have private land 'in holdings' so understanding the boundaries can keep you out of hot water
My thoughts - if neither of the two above are important to you, you might find better options for cyber scouting. You mention hunting 2 states, so if item #2 comes into play, I'd definitely go for it.

I live in less than 2.5-3.0 hours from public land in AR, MS, TN, KY, IL, MO, so I pay for the 'all 50 state plan'. I've seen it on CamoFire special for $59 (all 50 states) twice in the past 3-4 weeks, so if you subscribe and watch their sales, you might get a decent deal. The 1 state deal is a good bit less, depending on your needs.
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GAIA does all of that and more for $40.
 
I won’t ever go a season without it again.
I used to use a mixture of google earth pro, MotionX-GPS, and MeasureMap to do what OnX does.
Is it the absolute best application for each individual task you might want to do....? NO
Is it the most seamless, user friendly workflow that covers every aspect you need in the field sufficiently.....? YES

The place that it helped my process the most is the automatic integration of my field data with my desktop application. I no longer have to email myself KML’s or KMZ’s and manually download them to the computer, then upload them to google earth pro.

I still use google earth pro for digital scouting in conjunction with my OnX, but it is only to reference higher resolution data, and to run the imagery back in time for historic data. ALL of my points of interest and field marked waypoints are now done exclusively in OnX.
 
dpierce72 said:
Fror true cyber scouting, I strongly prefer a combo of Caltopo, Google Earth Pro, and Hillmap - each has certain functions I utilize that OnX does NOT have. For "in the field use", however, I rely primarily on OnX for two specific purposes.
  1. To understand landowners info in case I want to knock on a door (have but rarely)
  2. To understand public land boundaries - the 3 sites above won't do that and several areas I hunt have private land 'in holdings' so understanding the boundaries can keep you out of hot water
My thoughts - if neither of the two above are important to you, you might find better options for cyber scouting. You mention hunting 2 states, so if item #2 comes into play, I'd definitely go for it.

I live in less than 2.5-3.0 hours from public land in AR, MS, TN, KY, IL, MO, so I pay for the 'all 50 state plan'. I've seen it on CamoFire special for $59 (all 50 states) twice in the past 3-4 weeks, so if you subscribe and watch their sales, you might get a decent deal. The 1 state deal is a good bit less, depending on your needs.
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Couldn’t agree more, to all of the above!!
 
On X is way off X. Its sucks goat nuggets

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I have been using it for a little over a year now. I really like it and think it is worth the money.
 
dalton916 said:
GAIA does all of that and more for $40.
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I can see it replacing OnX, but I'm personally very skeptical it can do what I use CalTopo for (DEM shading contour levels to 3' in areas with little elevation change), HillMap (side by side topo/sat imagery) and Google Earth Pro (Historical data).

If it can do all three of those things to the level I do them at ...consider me sold.

Again, I can see $40 for all 50 states beating $59 for all 50 states, just not sure it can provide the detail I use cyber scouting. Hopefully I'm wrong and thanks so much for the tip.
 
dpierce72 said:
I can see it replacing OnX, but I'm personally very skeptical it can do what I use CalTopo for (DEM shading contour levels to 3' in areas with little elevation change), HillMap (side by side topo/sat imagery) and Google Earth Pro (Historical data).

If it can do all three of those things to the level I do them at ...consider me sold.

Again, I can see $40 for all 50 states beating $59 for all 50 states, just not sure it can provide the detail I use cyber scouting. Hopefully I'm wrong and thanks so much for the tip.
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The thing about GAIA is you can go and download different maps from there directory. It does have some shading and stuff like that. You should check it out


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parkersdad said:
The thing about GAIA is you can go and download different maps from there directory. It does have some shading and stuff like that. You should check it out


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I will - the big thing for me is the DEM shading / Historical imagery.

In the area I hunt, I use DEM shading on CalTopo because it's a flood-prone zone. I can shade to 3' (which essentially creates a topo map with 3' contour intervals) and lets me know areas that may need knee/hip boots, chest waders, or canoe. That elevation in the bottoms also let's me know areas that may produce gum trees or oak trees. And a normal 7.5 minute topo w/20' contour lines is useless.

This is the second time GAIA has come up on mapping discussions. Time to go check it out.

My original point was simply - I like OnX in the field to mark locations and understand boundaries, but when really cyber scouting, it is NOT up to snuff for me ...which is why I use those other three sites.

Thanks again for the info. Going to check it out now...
 
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