Hey Guys, just wondering if anyone else has used this App? Its called ONXmaps Hunt. I downloaded it last week and it works great on my iPhone. Even if i don't have cell service it keeps a gps signal and always shows where I am and tells who the property owners are. All the Walk in access is shown as dotted which makes them easy to find. Yesterday I called a landowner that I had found with the app and asked for permission to hunt and he said yes and also told me of some other properties to try and got me in touch with them. Saturday I will have a lot of ground to cover. This App only cost $29 for a year, much better than a GPS unit that does the exact same thing.
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ONXHunt Maps on the iPhone
- Thread starter EddieMc
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I have used it for several years for Indiana, and it is just as you described it. No use getting into it over whose property your on. I wish they would update it every year like they are suppose to, my neighbor has not owned his place in over two years but his name is still listed as the owner and I know the new owner. I would like to be able to use it for any state not just the one you pay for. If I would have had it for Iowa it would have saved our group of 4 $3000 cash bond, being arrested, jail time, tickets, court cost and probation each because we crossed another guys property line with unloaded guns, accidently for no more than 50 yards.
I've been using OnX Maps for a couple of years now in CO, WY and NM mostly for big game and turkeys. I now consider it nearly as essential as a weapon.
I still use Avenza with the CPW-provided WIA map files for the majority of pheasant hunting since it's easier to see the big yellow markers, but as you note, OnX is handy to have for landowner information.
The only issue is that, in many places, there is no cellular service, so if you want maps/layers on OnX you need to download them to the device in advance, but that's kind of a fun planning exercise anyway.
It does take some fiddling with layers and transparency to get it dialed in to what you want to see most clearly, which is my only negative. For example - I drew an elk tag in the Gila NF this year in NM. The unit is predominately public land, and the boundaries are exceedingly obvious, so I wanted to bring the Aerial view to the top and the topo lines second, basically eliminating the public/private land color layer (since I knew where it was). That took a lot of screwing around with the phone at night in camp to get it right. It is easier/faster to do all that when you're on a cellular signal and not on downloaded maps, but the nearest cell signal was ~1 hour away, so that wasn't an option.
I still use Avenza with the CPW-provided WIA map files for the majority of pheasant hunting since it's easier to see the big yellow markers, but as you note, OnX is handy to have for landowner information.
The only issue is that, in many places, there is no cellular service, so if you want maps/layers on OnX you need to download them to the device in advance, but that's kind of a fun planning exercise anyway.
It does take some fiddling with layers and transparency to get it dialed in to what you want to see most clearly, which is my only negative. For example - I drew an elk tag in the Gila NF this year in NM. The unit is predominately public land, and the boundaries are exceedingly obvious, so I wanted to bring the Aerial view to the top and the topo lines second, basically eliminating the public/private land color layer (since I knew where it was). That took a lot of screwing around with the phone at night in camp to get it right. It is easier/faster to do all that when you're on a cellular signal and not on downloaded maps, but the nearest cell signal was ~1 hour away, so that wasn't an option.