hey everybody brandon mason here with eastman's and today although we're out in the field we're gonna
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onX with their onX hunt app
and some of their other apps that they have too they have a 3d feature now we did an
update on this oh earlier this year but they've added even more features to the 3d mapping system
especially on desktop and so what they've done instead of just being able to see the topography
which is obviously very helpful they've also enabled all of the point features the track
features the different layers that you have loaded both on and offline to be viewable
usable um you can put points on the map tracks like i said everything in 3d and so not only is
3d handy to see the topography like i already mentioned but you can really hone in on an area
from the public and private land boundaries along with all of the other layers that onyx has
and you can really get specific and detail oriented in your scouting in your e-scouting
on your desktop and the cool thing is too is in then it saves to your account and then you have
it available on your device while you're out in the field one of the things we love is how onX is
constantly making these improvements because right about the time we think they can't possibly take
it up another notch as far as usefulness they do things like this and that's exactly what they do
onX is good about listening to their consumers and to their customers and getting feedback
and when onyx first started with their app oh man it's probably been 10 years ago they partnered
with google earth at the time to give the 3d features well now this 3d feature is actually onx's
it's in their system and so they don't have to rely on a third party to help them supply these
features that all of us have been asking for for years in their apps specifically now some of the
power behind 3d mapping is i mean obviously you get to see the topography and so you can
kind of make a plan of attack for how you want to go into an area especially one that's new to you
but you get the lay of the land you can see where drainages are where ridgelines are a little bit
clearer especially if you're not quite comfortable reading a true topographic map and which is kind
of becoming a lost art and seeing things in 3d and now with all the layers and waypoint features and
tracks etc that you can use with this it really paints a picture of the area before you actually
get there or even better after you've been there and going back to the desktop when you're back
at your home base you can really paint a picture in your mind how you want to go after this area
from a hunting scouting camping type of activity when you're out in the field now one thing i will
caution you it's there's still nothing like being in the field and so it's important to utilize the
the map scouting the e-scouting while you're on your desktop or your laptop and then also utilize
the points in the in the tracks and the features that you put on the lines that you draw the points
that you drop the icons that you're using to remind you where you want to be when you're in
the field you get to use that on here and then there's nothing like priceless time in the field
i've learned from experience that e-scouting gets me pretty close and i can't imagine
not having it anymore but a lot of times when you get out in the field
that country especially out west is sometimes two to three times bigger than what you actually
thought it was and so once you're out in the field and then you go back to e-scouting
you can really understand how much you want to bite off you don't want to bite off more than you
can chew when you're out in the field or even make plans to do that and you're telling loved ones
back home yeah i'm going to work up this drainage and i'm going to be camped up on this mountaintop
that might not be logical when you get there and so between the e-scouting and the on-the-ground
scouting you can actually get a really good snapshot and make realistic plans for when you're
in the field to help you be more successful and safer in the field as well so that's one of the
new features from onX if you're not a member of onX yet head to onxmaps.com and check them out
you have to go and see all the useful tools that you will have at your fingertips this
is just one of hundreds of useful ways to use e-scouting when you're not in the field
and then also utilize their system on your app when you're in the field up in the high country