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[Wandering Sagebrush]

For several years, I have used the OnX app when looking for public lands or land owner information to find new areas to chase chukars and other tasty flying critters.  I am also subscribed to Gaia to help with route planning when exploring my new home range here in NE Oregon.  

 

I found that I am pretty clumsy with the Gaia interface, but much more familiar with OnX, so after being frustrated by Gaia to locate sites that I knew by name and a very general location, I tried using the OnX search function with a search criteria similar to "place name, Baker County, Oregon".  It was very good about quickly returning a list of possible locations. Clicking on the location that appeared to be most correct immediately placed a pin on the map that could then be memorialized as a named waypoint.  I am impressed with the functionality.  Of course, you can download maps to use where cell coverage is not available.

 

OnX is good about showing routes, and displays the map in a manner that you find best.   It can be 2D and where mapping is available, 3D.  Map layers include  satellite, topography and a hybrid.  It does not have the type of route automation that Gaia does, but I don't think I want to use that.

 

OnX additionally offers off-road and back country applications that I haven't yet explored.  The hunting subscription is $29.99 per year for a state, and $99.99 per year for what I believe is all states. Pricing for the off-road and back country is similar.

 

OnX may not be useful for everyone, but I think it is going to be my goto tool for travels and exploration here in Oregon.

 

[LuckyDan]

OnX is a handy and useful App for certain.  For the budget minded, (Not that OnX is really pricey)  or those that need less stuff, Avenza is a good go to. The nice thing about Avenza is the free version will run a lot of free geo referenced Govt stuff. For example all the Access and Travel Mgt maps for the Central Oregon Forests is available for free through Avenza. The download interface is IMO easy to use.

 

A question, can a person import open source  PDF’s into OnX?

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Dan, I don’t know.  We would have to contact them.

[goinoregon]

i have been thinking about onx for hiking, etc. would be interested in others opinion

[ntsqd]

I've been using Gaia for planning off-pavement traveling and I find that it works very well for this. The big key thing is that it doesn't do this in the application. You have to do all of your creating online, and then sync whatever device you're using in the field.

 

I was initially attracted to OnX for the land ownership feature, but I was frustrated by the rest of it enough that I gave up.

[clikrf8]

We use Gaia, OnX and the maps we have purchased on Avenza: Benchmark, Trails Illustrated and USFS maps.