Do you trust OnX

[Colby3]

Thanks all for the advice and opinions. This will help me in planning our hunt routes in the future. I will trust OnX when I plan our routes and add a mile or so to be safe, Thanks again

 

[Gellar]

I don’t have a Fitbit watch, but I’ll look at the step counter on my iPhone occasionally. If I’m in the skid loader all day I can really get the steps. It must be something with the way it vibrates but I’ll end up with 40,000 steps according to my phone when in reality I didn’t take 1000.

 

[mtmiller]

What Google has to say. Your call to believe.

 

[Dan O]

I had a Fitbit. One day I was wondering if it worked only from taking steps or did movement effect it. So, I sat down in a comfy chair and started to roll my wrist left and right while sitting. In a few minutes I had walked 100 steps. Also, there is no way (in my mind) the steps counted can equate to an accurate distance due to the change in your steps. Example uphill or downhill vs level ground. GPS can be accurate if it follows your track without using time intervals. If it makes a waypoint every 5-, 10- or 30-minute intervals then it just measures point to point and nothing in between. I think the track made by my Garmin GPS Montana 600 is more accurate than the ones that give a point involving multi minute waypoints.

But at the end of the day it doesn't matter how far I went. It matters that I was able to get to where I wanted to get and back again.

 

[LuketheDog]

I will trust OnX when I plan our routes and add a mile or so to be safe

Don't add the mile, GPS is as accurate as you can get

 

[kwyeewyk]

Don't add the mile, GPS is as accurate as you can get

I agree, if anything onx is over counting due to error drift, but who cares just go with it and calibrate around it.

@Colby3 Not sure what device you're using to run onx, but if you want more accuracy you'll probably need to upgrade your GPS, newer devices are probably more accurate.

@onX Hunt might be able to provide more info, but it seems like when you mark a track it has every interval point displayed on the line when you're recording it, but then after you save it sort of smoothes the track out and rounds off the edges. This would be the only way I could see the onx app affecting mileage accuracy, otherwise seems like a GPS accuracy issue if you're really seeing a lot of inaccuracy, beyond comparing GPS vs step counters.

 

[Justabirdwatcher]

I’d be more reluctant to trust the Fitbit than the OnX.

was gonna say the exact same. Fitbit (my wife wears hers religiously) is not very accurate. It's more of a general guide meant to motivate people. I trust OnX quite a bit and use it all the time for all sorts of things.

 

[Coop]

OnX, when compared to my Garmin Epix watch, which utilizes GPS as well, tends to be very similar. That being said, both will inflate my distance if I sit it one spot for long. They seem to think I'm walking in 1 foot circles while I'm stopped.