OnxMaps Imagery

[MULEPACKHUNTER]

I agree with the above that ONX is not good resolution but I find I don't use it anyway, I run almost all topo setting and scout the area I am hunting so I already know what im looking at, I just want good solid offline maps and elevation with trails and private ground. I also use the map tools for measureing and my all time favorite deal is the share feature. I turned like 6 buddies on to ONX and we share data so easily. ONX must have done a great marketing deal cuz I never heard of the other options in my circles. Never heard of basemap until Snyder mentioned it two years after we had ONX and of course GoHUNT is new sooooo.

 

[Yard Candy]

Call me simple - but even though I pay for Gaia, OnX keeps pulling me back for some reason. I keep thinking of switching over but I can't decide.

I don't know if it's the marketing, color scheme, simplicity of the UI, or the multitude of waypoint icons to choose from, but something about OnX tickles my pickle.

Yet Gaia has a lot more features and abilities.

Sigh.

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[MULEPACKHUNTER]

Only one issue with ONX and its a big one, the renew set up is completely dumb. They want you to wait until it runs out and expires before you can renew current membership. Well I bought mine around Elk season so last year I was going to be in Elk camp and no access to computer so I called and You couldn't at the time renew ahead of time so I told them they just lost a customer cuz that's like paying your bills after they are overdue???? dumb They ended up just giving me the next year free but this year I will be in the same boat if they didn't fix it. I sent in complaint and suggestion on it so we will see. Makes no sense to me

 

[Yard Candy]

Only one issue with ONX and its a big one, the renew set up is completely dumb. They want you to wait until it runs out and expires before you can renew current membership. Well I bought mine around Elk season so last year I was going to be in Elk camp and no access to computer so I called and You couldn't at the time renew ahead of time so I told them they just lost a customer cuz that's like paying your bills after they are overdue???? dumb They ended up just giving me the next year free but this year I will be in the same boat if they didn't fix it. I sent in complaint and suggestion on it so we will see. Makes no sense to me

That's really weird they don't have an auto-renew or something. I'm sure they'll add it. At least they tried to make it right and gave you a year free. I'd call it square.

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[BaseMap]

Gotcha, thank you. I'm currently using Gaia, $40/yearly and running Google earth map imported. What's your elevator pitch vs that setup?

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Google Imagery. 3D mapping on iOS. Over 800 layers. Large high res-imagery for offline mapping. $30/year for all 50 states

 

[muddydogs]

Call me simple - but even though I pay for Gaia, OnX keeps pulling me back for some reason. I keep thinking of switching over but I can't decide.

I don't know if it's the marketing, color scheme, simplicity of the UI, or the multitude of waypoint icons to choose from, but something about OnX tickles my pickle.

Yet Gaia has a lot more features and abilities.

Sigh.

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I think the opposite of you. I was all into Gaia mainly for the price over Onx but after the 4 time in 4 hunts I had problems viewing maps and waypoints while out hunting I switched to Onx. I switched to Onx while on a hunt in AZ setting on the side of a mountain with minimal coverage and just from what I got with the initial download I could tell Onx was better. A couple days later we made a town run and while grabbing lunch I hooked into WIFI and downloaded a bunch of Onx maps for my area and at that time I realized Gaia was very subpar compared to Onx.
I have found that Onx has everything that Gaia has for mapping but Onx is much easier to use and down load maps for.

 

[Yard Candy]

Onx has everything that Gaia has for mapping

Not true. Here are some things Gaia has that OnX does not:

-Vector street view
-Slope-angle shading (super useful)
-Ability to integrate Google Earth
-Can send a waypoint to Google Maps for navigation
-Shows more marked parking and pull offs (for me)
-Can organize waypoints/content into folders
-Fishing topo maps
-When creating lines on the map you can have them snap to the trails/roads. It will also show you the elevation for said lines.

That being said, I chose to use OnX for hunting (I only hunt in one state) and I use the free version of Gaia for hiking, mountain biking, basically any other excursion or POI that isn't hunting.

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[muddydogs]

Not true. Here are some things Gaia has that OnX does not:

-Vector street view
-Slope-angle shading (super useful)
-Ability to integrate Google Earth
-Can send a waypoint to Google Maps for navigation
-Shows more marked parking and pull offs (for me)
-Can organize waypoints/content into folders
-Fishing topo maps
-When creating lines on the map you can have them snap to the trails/roads. It will also show you the elevation for said lines.

That being said, I chose to use OnX for hunting (I only hunt in one state) and I use the free version of Gaia for hiking, mountain biking, basically any other excursion or POI that isn't hunting.

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Guess most of that is meaningless to me. I use google maps for road navigation and Onx for hunting, if I need a marker on Google maps I just add one. I don't use Google Earth much as the photo's in Onx work just fine. As for slope angle, pull offs and parking areas I get all that from the photo and topo lines. I don't even care about marked parking areas or pull off's, never even crossed my mind, all I need is a spot big enough to get the pickup off the road so it won't impend traffic and i'm good to go.

I do realize that I have been navigating with topo maps and photos for 30 years so some of this just comes natural to me, I can look at a photo and get an idea of how steep it is even without topo lines, Heck I started using photo's when they were 1 to 60,000 black and white or inferred. I get why some people find some of this stuff useful as they haven't spent a better part of a life time navigating to an exact spot / pin prick on a photo.

I do miss the folder options in Gaia, they kept stuff organized.

 

[Yard Candy]

I do miss the folder options in Gaia, they kept stuff organized.

I agree! Now that I'm using OnX for hunting I love it. It works better for me. The folder thing would be a huge feature though if they could add it without making the UI too clunky.

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