onX Hunt Tutorial/Q&A

[onX Hunt]

Great thread! Been using onX for a couple years, my only question-

It seems random, but I get this annoying line trying to take me from my location Back to another waypoint I have saved. It’s like I asked it to take me to waypoint A, but I haven’t. How do I get it to stop?

Do you have a screenshot of what that looks like?

It could have accidentally enabled the "Go-To", does the "# of miles away" and direction box show up in the upper left hand corner? If so, tap the x and that would remove that line and information from the map.

 

[CMF]

Is there any way to save a group of favorite way point types or hide ones we don't use?
I don't want to scroll through, "jeep", "horse", and "Sasquatch" that I'll never use to get to "scrape" or "tracks"and other frequently used way point types. Or maybe the most frequent could show up first vs alphabetical...

Any plan to provide a range on the road-less area layer or possibly include trail-less areas? For areas in the east, Mississippi for example, there is very little land that shows up as road less due to the excessive amount of roads.

 

[wapitibob]

There are multiple ways to sort and filter.

 

[onX Hunt]

Is there any way to save a group of favorite way point types or hide ones we don't use?
I don't want to scroll through, "jeep", "horse", and "Sasquatch" that I'll never use to get to "scrape" or "tracks"and other frequently used way point types. Or maybe the most frequent could show up first vs alphabetical...

Any plan to provide a range on the road-less area layer or possibly include trail-less areas? For areas in the east, Mississippi for example, there is very little land that shows up as road less due to the excessive amount of roads.

Stay tuned as we do have more customization with waypoints and your most used appearing first coming very soon. Thanks for the feedback on the roadless layer, I'll bring that up to our team so we can improve on that.

 

[11boo]

hi, do you have your tracker turned on? Is the line red?

thanks Robbie, this is happening sometime when tracking is on, sometimes off.

of course it is not happening now. Just got back from a couple days of scouting, no issues.

 

[11boo]

Do you have a screenshot of what that looks like?

It could have accidentally enabled the "Go-To", does the "# of miles away" and direction box show up in the upper left hand corner? If so, tap the x and that would remove that line and information from the map.

No screenshot, if it happens again I’ll get one. Probably “operator error” lol.
Thanks for the reply.

 

[robby denning]

thanks Robbie, this is happening sometime when tracking is on, sometimes off.

of course it is not happening now. Just got back from a couple days of scouting, no issues.

Sure, I’m pretty sure it’s what @onX Hunt said. You’ve just got the “go to“ function on. If you’re seeing a mileage box, just hit that X in that box and it’ll shut it off.

The function is for when you’re at one place and you want to go to a waypoint you hit “go to“ and then follow that line. Very handy when needed.

 

[shotacoffey]

Stay tuned as we do have more customization with waypoints and your most used appearing first coming very soon. Thanks for the feedback on the roadless layer, I'll bring that up to our team so we can improve on that.

Rad, looking forward to this

 

[dcopher]

Anybody else login to OnX and see that they are working on 3D mapping? Says coming soon. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.

 

[CMF]

Anybody else login to OnX and see that they are working on 3D mapping? Says coming soon. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.

Just saw that this morning while downloading some offline maps for an upcoming hunt.

My question now, is there a plan to add elevation layers? I think that is a pretty useful layer, but like the roadless layer, the ranges should be adjustable and not set at a fixed range like "10k-11.5k"

Slope contours layer would be nice too...

 

[Ripalip7]

My apologies that I never received a notification for this.
Are you still having this issue with the app?
Feel free to shoot us a message or give us a call at 406-540-1600 so we can look up your account and gather more information to get you up and running again!

As far as exporting waypoints, you can do that and this page will walk you through that process
How to Export/Save Your waypoints to your computer

SO I am able to export the data but when I put it back in to OnX it seems to double up on some of my way points. How do i keep it from doing that? Also is there a way to keep the way point type once it imported back into OnX or do you have to go back and retype all of the way points? I just get the Red X when I import it back on to OnX.

Thanks
Charlie

 

[onX Hunt]

Just saw that this morning while downloading some offline maps for an upcoming hunt.

My question now, is there a plan to add elevation layers? I think that is a pretty useful layer, but like the roadless layer, the ranges should be adjustable and not set at a fixed range like "10k-11.5k"

Slope contours layer would be nice too...

Thanks for the feedback and input. We are looking into additional elevation information so this helps us develop that feature.

 

[onX Hunt]

SO I am able to export the data but when I put it back in to OnX it seems to double up on some of my way points. How do i keep it from doing that? Also is there a way to keep the way point type once it imported back into OnX or do you have to go back and retype all of the way points? I just get the Red X when I import it back on to OnX.

Thanks
Charlie

Unfortunately since the exported file has all waypoints exported into the file, there is no way to filter out any when it is imported back into a system which is why you are seeing some duplicates. Additionally, at this time they are defaulted to the generic waypoint, we are looking into this so all the information and customization is exported with it.

 

[McSkackman]

Yet another super helpful post for a newbie dipping their toes in all of this. Really appreciate the time others have put in on these threads.

 

[SoDak_23]

Big Fan of OnX. Have been occasionally using OnX for a couple years but now getting more use as I have some western trips coming up. My question is about Roads and trails. I have check out the legend about highway vs two track vs dirt road. And maybe this isn't for OnX but how or what is the best way to find out if the two track or dirt trail is public and I am able to legally drive on that road?

 

[SteepandDeep]

If I delete photos from my iPhone album will it delete them from my waypoints in the app?

 

[wapitibob]

See if the pics are attached in the web map, if they're there then they (most likely) save a thumbnail.

 

[SteepandDeep]

See if the pics are attached in the web map, if they're there then they (most likely) save a thumbnail.

Thanks. I haven’t used the web map yet but I’ll check it out

 

[SteepandDeep]

My iPhone won’t backup because I don’t have enough cloud storage and found the onX app needs 3.5 GB but my limit is 5. I tried exporting my data/content from the web map using gpx and kml on a chrome book but the files won’t open or do anything. Probably not an onX problem; just trying to learn. Any ideas?

 

[TXHiblerZXT]

Well found yet another thread I need to follow as a new guy to all of this. Tons of information here. Thanks to all of those that participate