onX Backcountry combines a quality navigation platform and a comprehensive trail guide book into one application. Find the outdoor activities you're looking for and keep track of yourself and your adventure while in the field.
You can learn about map features without consulting a legend by tapping the feature on your screen. Click here to learn more about identifying map features without a legend.
Table of Contents:
- Basic Map Legend for onX Backcountry.
- onX Backcountry App features.
- onX Backcountry Web Map features.
- onX Backcountry App controls.
- onX Backcountry Web Map controls
Basic Map Legend
Featured Trails: blue (Trail Mode) or purple (Snow Mode) trails that include photos of the trail, descriptions, ratings, and more.
Trail Slopes: shown on a gradient from green (flattest) to red (steepest).
Recreation Sites: campgrounds, trailheads, and other points of interest.
Color-coded Government Lands: National Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, State Forest, etc.
onX Backcountry App Features
Main Toolbar
Discover: quickly find nearby trails.
Offline Maps: save maps to your device to use anywhere, with or without cell service.
My Content: storage location for your saved Waypoints, Lines, Shapes, and Tracks.
Map Tools: create Waypoints, Lines, and Shapes.
Tracker: record your path as you travel and view your distance, time, and speed.
Basmaps and Map Layers
Basemaps and Map Layers: change between a satellite view, a topography view, or a satellite view with topography lines, and overlay your map with important information, like trail slopes, active wildfires, government lands, and more.
My Location Button: center the map on your location, orient the map in the direction you're facing, and show the compass.
Wind & Weather Button: see weather conditions reported by stations across the country.
Search: search for a trail's name or number, geographic feature, latitude / longitude coordinates, national or state park, town or city, and more.
Main Menu: edit your account info, change map settings, check the help center, share onX Backcountry with your friends, view messages in your inbox.
onX Backcountry Web Map features
Main Toolbar
Discover: quickly find nearby trails.
Offline Maps: save maps to your device to use anywhere, with or without cell service.
My Content: storage location for your saved Waypoints, Lines, Shapes and Tracks.
My Account & Settings
Click the "My Account & Settings" button for more features.
My Account: change your name, email address, password, and manage your billing.
Settings:
- Units: Imperial or Metric Units.
- GPS: Decimal, DMS, or UTM GPS coordinates.
- Secret Spot Mode: GPS coordinates set to 0.00. 0.00.
- Crosshair Visibility: show crosshairs in the center of the map.
- Show Coordinates: GPS coordinates shown or hidden.
- Display Scale Bar: scale bar shown or hidden.
- Help & Support: FAQs (this help center), Contact Us (contact customer support).
Invite Friends.
Print: create paper copies of your maps on your home computer.
Search, Map Tools, and right side buttons
Search: search for a trail's name or number, geographic feature, latitude / longitude coordinates, national or state park, town or city, and more.
Map Tools: create Waypoints, Lines, and Shapes.
3D Mode and Basemap Buttons: view the landscape in 3D and change between satellite view, topography view, or a satellite view with topography lines.
onX Backcountry App controls
Zooming in: touch two fingers to the screen and spread them apart.
You can also tap twice in the same spot to zoom in.
Zooming out: touch two fingers to the screen and pinch them together.
Move the map (pan): touch the map and swipe in any direction.
onX Backcountry Web Map controls
Zooming in and out: In the upper right hand corner, click the [+] button to zoom in or click the [-] button to zoom out.
You can also use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out.
Move the map (pan): click and drag the map in any direction.