Free onX Elite Membership Offer (First Year) for Ford Customers
Nice, but I already have a sub, and this won't give me a free year.
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What are your thoughts on the app?Nice, but I already have a sub, and this won't give me a free year.
I'm impressed with the coverage and level of detail, though it's a bit laggy when browsing around or building a route (same-same for the browser, in my experience). Once it's build though, it performs as well as any nav app.
I'd definitely recommend it, but whether it's worth $100 a year is a personal choice. I think AllTrails is the only viable alternative, or a subscription to one of the Garmin topos (along with a Garmin device to use them, of course). It all boils down to how far off the beaten path you want to go, and how often.
I'd definitely recommend it, but whether it's worth $100 a year is a personal choice. I think AllTrails is the only viable alternative, or a subscription to one of the Garmin topos (along with a Garmin device to use them, of course). It all boils down to how far off the beaten path you want to go, and how often.
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I had an account a few years ago and was really disappointed with the number of maps/trails it has in my area. I’m in Portland Oregon and there are no lack of off road trails within an hour drive but OnX was seriously lacking most of them. Maybe it’s improved but it seemed like they rely on their users to create content.
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It's definitely not buggy now! I'm your neighbor over here in Idaho and I am impressed will all the trails it has listed. (There is a few I thought only my previous Jeep club knew about.) Ive loaded\accessed OnX on a Andriod tablet and using Firefox on my PC both work smoothly!
I think it's a neat app but I haven't been able to get anywhere in Texas with trails to try it on. I think I'm on my 2nd subscription so I doubt I can do the free thing.
When I did try a trail ride, I made a route with GAIA GPS. At the time (couple of years ago), I kind of preferred GAIA but the route I made took way too long, got me into private property, and I kept losing the map while on the trail. Not a good thing to do when it's my first time in the Texas Hill Country and it's getting dark.
When I did try a trail ride, I made a route with GAIA GPS. At the time (couple of years ago), I kind of preferred GAIA but the route I made took way too long, got me into private property, and I kept losing the map while on the trail. Not a good thing to do when it's my first time in the Texas Hill Country and it's getting dark.
I'd forgotten about Gaia. I may have to do a side-by side for their AZ coverage. The last time I looked at it, they still didn't have CarPlay integration (they do now). They are also more expensive, so there's that.
I purchased both a year or two ago. They were having annual subscription deals on both so I picked them up. Never had a chance to use them.
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Just downloaded it. Thanks Steve!!
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Well this looks a lot better than a few years ago when I first looked into it. I have an existing account was still able to get the 1 year free deal via the Ford App
. A quick look and it looks like there’s way more mapped trails than last time I looked into using OnX. Looking forward to using it on the trail
I bought a tablet that has built in gps and loaded the app on it. You can download maps of areas and use the offline option to navigate trails. Doing it this way allows the use of both the app and the forward/reverse/360 view camera. On my 1st dabble offroad using the app I lost cell service and came to a 3 way fork in the trail(S) luckily my spidey sense kicked in and I chose the correct path. This is why I went with tablet as I didn't want to risk another failure as I fly solo during mid week to avoid the crowds.Well this looks a lot better than a few years ago when I first looked into it. I have an existing account was still able to get the 1 year free deal via the Ford App
On another note.....Under the elite pro deals tab they may have something of interest depending on if a person is looking to make any related purchases.
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