Trails Off Road / OnX
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I ended up getting OnX during memorial day sale. I Still keep going back to COTREX when I'm on trail and for charting. It's more user friendly... and what I know. OnX is nice that it has a trail rating and first hand reviews but it's been wrong several times about closures. This time of year gates are opening fast due to weather, that was something I was hoping it would be accurate about. Had a trail that was open and I'd been running for a couple weeks. Several people reporting it closed. Guessing they were at the wrong trail head. Kept the traffic down which was nice
something I just realized with Cotrex is I can't add custom waypoints. I can do that on OnX, but with COTREX I'm limited to destinations that already exist in the database, which means I can't pin specific locations for photo ops or to check out what looks like a usable primitive campsite on aerial view. It will let me add a "field note" but it will only let me add it for my current GPS location, which does me no good from 800 miles away.
Thread revival… but this seemed the best place to ask this. Who has seen the premium vs elite mapping differences using ONX?. I am interpreting that you can get more recent satellite imagery in the premium???
Can I run this on my IPad and my phone? Or does that require two separate purchases?
The sale price of $17.50 pretty tempting to try.
Can I run this on my IPad and my phone? Or does that require two separate purchases?
The sale price of $17.50 pretty tempting to try.
Of course they have that deal 3 weeks after I renewed.
I used onx as my main route planning and navigation app this year. I find it works pretty well for that when I already know the area.
As I talked about in my long post last year, the trail info and technical difficulty ratings are not good. I found multiple instances where a trail would be a 4 in Trailsoffroad and a 7 in onx, or the opposite, which could really cause some problems leading a group that includes a couple of near stock Tacomas and novice wheelers.
There are also a lot of trails that aren't named correctly, multiple trails in one object under one name, don't follow the correct route according to MVUM, etc.
I DO really like that I can just click in open space and it tells me whether it's NF, BLM, wilderness, etc. That helps tremendously in finding camp sites and making sure I'm not gonna have a deputy hassle us about setting up on a private mining claim. I've even found a couple campsites marked as legal in Trailsoffroad that are on private property.
I used onx as my main route planning and navigation app this year. I find it works pretty well for that when I already know the area.
As I talked about in my long post last year, the trail info and technical difficulty ratings are not good. I found multiple instances where a trail would be a 4 in Trailsoffroad and a 7 in onx, or the opposite, which could really cause some problems leading a group that includes a couple of near stock Tacomas and novice wheelers.
There are also a lot of trails that aren't named correctly, multiple trails in one object under one name, don't follow the correct route according to MVUM, etc.
I DO really like that I can just click in open space and it tells me whether it's NF, BLM, wilderness, etc. That helps tremendously in finding camp sites and making sure I'm not gonna have a deputy hassle us about setting up on a private mining claim. I've even found a couple campsites marked as legal in Trailsoffroad that are on private property.
I subscribe to Trails Offroad and Gaia. Never tried Onx though. I've wheeled with the owner of Trails Offroad (Joshua) a few times. Though the page lists someone else as the founder? I read that they are going to at some point include TO on Wranglers. So don't know if that has happened yet.
As someone who is directionally challenged, I often use it to get to the trail head. I've never gotten lost while using it, and that is saying a lot lol. I'm that guy that pulls up google maps the first 20 times I'm going somewhere. Without apps like this, I would've hosted less trail runs. With it, I can pretend I know where I'm going.
As someone who is directionally challenged, I often use it to get to the trail head. I've never gotten lost while using it, and that is saying a lot lol. I'm that guy that pulls up google maps the first 20 times I'm going somewhere. Without apps like this, I would've hosted less trail runs. With it, I can pretend I know where I'm going.
I subscribed to TO this year as well, they got me with a half off promotion.
My use case so far was finding and planning a run of a new trail I'd never done with a difficulty rating that was neither too easy or difficult for my group. I like that you can just pull up the map for an area and easily see trails in the area, the color coding of the trails also makes it easier to select a trail that has the difficulty I'm looking for.
The follow mode is also helpful when you're on the trail to have an idea of where you're at, how far still to go, and upcoming obstacles and waypoints.
When my subscription runs out to TO, I'm thinking about trying OnX for a year to compare and decide if there's one I want to commit to.
I had OnX for a year and wasn't a fan. Stuff was listed as closed that I knew was open, reports weren't great. I got TO for this season, I like it a little better. Still find myself using CoTrex more than anything which is a free ap
OnX is offering a 50% deal for Labor Day.
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I use OnX (both hunt and off-road) and like how easy it is to navigate. I use both while working as I spend a lot of time on primitive trails and road systems. OnX can be spendy but it does what you expect it to. Recent imagery is nice on off-road elite.
For CO I use Trails Offroad.
Though recently I bought OnX and it has been pretty handy. You can set way points, look at latest aerials, works offline, but it does come with the expensive pricetag and needs annual renewal.
Though recently I bought OnX and it has been pretty handy. You can set way points, look at latest aerials, works offline, but it does come with the expensive pricetag and needs annual renewal.
Another thing to note about Trails Off-road is that all Jeep Badge of Honor trails are free on there. So if you use OnX (like me) you can also view all of the waypoints and obstacles on Trails for those certain trails.
I bought both, Trails offroad is the one I like best. Bought on a holiday special and have renewed it. For here in Colorado, CoTrex is still my favorite. Only problem with Cotrex is theres no difficulty ratings or reviews but accuracy and ease of use makes it my go to. In Combination with Trails Off Road it works good for me
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