smart phone map apps-who uses them?

[monterey]

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[Wandering Archer]

Topo maps on my iphone is all I use. I take a paper map but never pull it out. Just turn aiplane mode on and off when I'm looking at the map to save battery.

[southernarcher]

Check out hunstand on android.

[old_goat2]

All I've used for the last five seasons elk and deer hunting. My current phone is kind of sucky but it's the phone not the program. Only pitfall I have with the program I have is every time I upgrade phones, I lose all my maps and waypoints, maps are free and easy to download, waypoints cost a lot of blood sweat and tears, I'm going to write them all down next time I upgrade phones and maybe start a file on the computer. It's priceless to have a large touch screen GPS for less than thirty bucks that has private/public property boundaries and GMU boundaries. I use Backcountry Navigator, you download maps at home and you DON'T have to have cell service in the field.

[Bill Carlsen]

I'm with Charlie Lamb. It's a bit like checking the weather forecast every day but it also allows you to put in stand locations, pinch points and gives you wind direction. Helps decide which stand to hunt without getting there first to find the wind is not what the weather channel predicted.

[lt-m-grow]

Good stuff here.  I've been playing with the OnXMap and find it kinda cool.  The platt information is great and something I have never seen on other apps before. ?

Regarding using your phone and not a gps afield...I don't understand how that works especially in big country where I need a gps...for five big reasons.

1.) It tends to rain...phones don't like rain
2.) it tends to be sunny...phones are almost impossible to us in direct sunlight.
3.) The quality of GPS chipsets is superior in GPSes vs. the phone.
4.) I have a tendency to drop things or abuse things afield...phones do like that stuff.
5.) Phones don't have batteries that can swap out anytime and chargers are hard to come by on a mountain hunt.

These apps are great and/or fun.  I love em but they don't replace GPSes IMO.

[DDawg]

Some hunters on another forum recommended HuntStand Lite.  
Has some good features, and can sync with other devices.  I downloaded it the other day and so far it seems pretty nice.