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How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby checkerfred » Sun Feb 18, 2018 12:54 pm

You guys that hunt and scout with friends, how do you share data between each other? I've tried Caltopo and honestly it's terrible for that. Ideally, I'd like something that would sync between each other without having to send a gps file back and forth.


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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby Babshaft » Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:01 pm

Maybe try the geo-pak app? You’ll need the premium version but you can try it for free for a week to see if it would work for you. It’s not terribly expensive for the year.

I also believe ScoutLook has a feature that will let you share info as well.

Maybe google docs if you don’t want to go app based? Mark up a map, save it to google docs and the. You can both view and edit in real time?

Just a thought buddy. Good luck!
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby Rob loper » Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:03 pm

ive had them all and geo pack hunt imo is best
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby Horizontal Hunter » Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:10 pm

We have Garmin so we just use the wireless transfer feature.

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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby tgreeno » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:36 pm

I believe with HuntStand you can create a group, and share maps. I don't know how to do it, because I don't have any friends ;)

I just use the free version.
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby thwack16 » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:40 pm

HuntStand is perfect. I do it with each of my hunting buddies. Can pick whether or not you give access and then to what degree they have access (ie whether or nto they can add/delete icons).

Send me a pm if you decide to use it and need help figuring it out. Will be glad to help.
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby tbunao » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:13 am

OnXmaps has a share feature that allows you to do what you are looking for
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby CHALK_1 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:38 am

HuntStand....but I don’t have friends either haha...
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby brancher147 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:54 am

We usually just look at maps together when we get back to camp or home. Usually on a computer google earth pro these days...
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby checkerfred » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:31 pm

tbunao wrote:OnXmaps has a share feature that allows you to do what you are looking for


thanks guys, I'll check this and HuntStand out...I have OnX but don't use it much as I didn't care for the aerials but it may be fine just to share data
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby Rob loper » Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:14 am

tgreeno wrote:I believe with HuntStand you can create a group, and share maps. I don't know how to do it, because I don't have any friends ;)

I just use the free version.


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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby sureshotscott » Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:06 am

checkerfred wrote:You guys that hunt and scout with friends, how do you share data between each other? I've tried Caltopo and honestly it's terrible for that. Ideally, I'd like something that would sync between each other without having to send a gps file back and forth.


That's exactly what a friend and I do with Caltopo. The only tricky part is securing our maps (you have to make it private manually) and we have to be signed into Google for the security to work.
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby Net Guy » Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:51 am

My buddy has HuntStand and I use a handheld Garmin GPS, so we are exploring options as well. I think we are going to go the HuntStand route for sharing hunting strategies. We also keep an excel doc that highlights all the areas we hit up.
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby checkerfred » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:32 pm

sureshotscott wrote:
checkerfred wrote:You guys that hunt and scout with friends, how do you share data between each other? I've tried Caltopo and honestly it's terrible for that. Ideally, I'd like something that would sync between each other without having to send a gps file back and forth.


That's exactly what a friend and I do with Caltopo. The only tricky part is securing our maps (you have to make it private manually) and we have to be signed into Google for the security to work.


I like Caltopo ok if I'm sitting at a computer...but even then, when you start putting thousands of points in there, it starts getting clunky. Plus it's not ideal from a cell phone. It may be that we have to sync with something else and then import into our app of choice...not ideal but it's tough finding an app we like that has the features we like. Most of the ones we see have terrible aerials or they're not cache-able
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Re: How to sync hunting/scouting data with friend?

Unread postby <DK> » Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:30 am

Are you planning to share EVERYTHING w each other? Just use the same login for any app or webisite...


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