ONXElite: Nationwide Digital Map Membership for Phone, Tablet, and Computer - Color Coded Land Ownership - 24k Topo - Hunting Specific Data - Updates Hunt Chip

This is all my dad asked for as a gift for Christmas! It was by far the easiest most-wanted gift to shop for.

The Prairie dog layer was there when I bought it, and I specifically bought this for that layer, and when I got to Montana to use it, it was gone. They had discontinued it a couple days earlier as they could not get updated maps since 2015. This is the year 2023. Would have been good to know before I bought it. I talked to support that gave me a map that was 40 miles wide of the area I would be in and said, prairie dogs are somewhere in there. Not exactly narrowing it down. I've sent them a letter asking for money back but have not heard back.

Was not happy with this product. If you are already singed up on onX it is next to impossible to put this card in and cancel your subscription. Had to call onX in order to do it. There is very little directions to set it up. The price is the same if you do monthly payments with onX or buy this card.

I have been using this product for 4+ years and although my initial perception was fantastic, I have realized that there are serious limitations for serious hunters. This product is great for laying out property boundaries, seeing other items like old fires, seeing a birds eye view of the ground cover, and providing un-annotated 24k topo maps. And with an offline option, it gives you some backup for areas that you may be in without cellphone coverage, all good and somewhat useful tools.Where its limitations really show up is when you want to use it for pre-trip planning where you want to get into the details of seeing the reality of what you may find of interest on the topo map. Think up in the rockies, or the Cascades where you are planning to be on foot. Its limitations are pretty impactful.This product has no Google Earth type controls to allow you to pan, pivot and really zoom in. The imagery is FLAT with no way to tilt it to get a look at what the terrain really looks like. For me this is a deal killer, not only that, the imagery is not crisp and has a limited zoom in. Google earth is light years ahead in what you can figure out about the characteristics of the terrain you are going into.Although the topo maps really look nice, after you get into it a little bit you realize they have been scrubbed of all annotations, no buildings or historical location references, really nothing except a few creek/river names and major mountains although by using some of the available layers you can get trail information and a few minor government bldgs like SOME lookout towers and rec. sites. What this does to me in my use is completely disorient me. Start zooming around and moving the map and suddenly its almost impossible to tell where you are. If I am looking to hunt around an old lookout tower, or historic mining area, they are not on the maps at all. Pick up a USGS map and look at the information on it, look at the OnX topos and its like looking at a desert.Those are my two biggest gripes. No imagery controls and non-existent topo detail,,,Other than that, if you are hunting in and around a bunch of mixed ownership areas, close to your road system, its reasonably use-able, but if you are into digging into topos to find new terrain features and then looking at the ground images in detail forget it. My opinion is this is pretty much for non-serious hunters who just need a general idea of where they are headed so they don't end up shooting someones goat.I will say that I have had lots of dialog with the company representatives and they have been responsive, polite and helpful but that isn't helping them make the product better.So, I am using Garmin BaseCamp now with a chip for topo of the states I hunt in because it has a direct link to Google Earth and all the fantastic options that brings with it from being able to see historical image data from clear back in 1994 so I can find old clear cuts and see what the ground looks like underneath all that timber, to being able to zoom and tilt to see just how steep the ground really looks and if there are any cliffs or other dangers to watch out for.Like to many companies in the technology age they seem to have lost their focus from what they started out to do and aren't putting the effort into hunting tools, but there are lots of new features for you to be able to post to the web and other non useful features that hunters would not use because they don't share good hunting spots with anyone....... I hope that OnX focuses on getting their user tools together and drops all the frills they are building into the product to satisfy the tweeters and facebook legions and get back into the business of providing hunting tools for hunters......

Definitely a must have for a serious hunter that likes to stay mobile. A little expensive, but overall worth it.

I think it’s great that I could get a gift card for this since I originally thought I would have to take the persons phone and download it, having the card gives them access when they choose to use it. As far as the app goes I’m not the one using it so i don’t know

Bought as gift for my son and he is thrilled.

Best gps map data for the price.