outfitted hunts on your land

[Turkey Creek]

Contact them and submit a request. I'm sure they have staff for exactly that purpose.

I would be surprised if they do, but happy to be wrong. Their entire business model revolves around the concept of showing you who owns what. If they marked everything as private they would put themselves out of business. I have talked to one of the owners of OnX a couple of times as we have a mutual friend, nice guy, but again it doesn't seem logical to intentionally work against your business.

 

[Mortenson]

Yeah I don't see that happening. It's just an online platbook.

 

[Telemark]

I would be surprised if they do, but happy to be wrong. Their entire business model revolves around the concept of showing you who owns what. If they marked everything as private they would put themselves out of business. I have talked to one of the owners of OnX a couple of times as we have a mutual friend, nice guy, but again it doesn't seem logical to intentionally work against your business.

Their consumers are hunters. Hunters who get pissed off at them will not buy their product. Anyone asking to have their info taken off the app clearly don't want people calling them, so it doesn't help OnX to keep the info on the app and annoy the landowner, who is probably a hunter, and waste the time of the app user. It makes a lot more sense that the app users don't waste their time contacting people who don't want to be contacted while being reasonable with landowners who might then purchase the app.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

I don't understand how that stuff works, I see some that aren't listed now and again.
I also see some that the "tax address" is the actual address of the property, despite there being no residence, no mail delivery, no nothing.

As a side note, I don't understand where any of that online map info comes from or how it gets shared, or doesn't. EVERY single online map shows a road on my family’s property that doesn't exist. I submitted a "map correction" with Garmin decades ago and it did no good. There's no road and hasn't been for sure, for almost a 100 years. Knowing the terrain features and elevation changes, I doubt there ever could have been. So how does it keep getting propagated?

Flipside of that, (and to really get sidetracked ) we don’t have an address. No house number. There’s actually an old house number from the ‘50s on the side of the house (or what was the side of the house in the 50s, its now inside the house lol) and a fire department “house number”, and another fire department house number. Also nowadays if you go on say Google Earth, it shows a number on the house. But none of them do any good. None of them show up anywhere else. If I wanted to get something delivered there, I can’t because none of those numbers show up anywhere in anyone’s system online. (I’d love to be able to get things like tree stands and blinds delivered there, instead of hauling them hundreds of miles myself). Seems strange that the house number that Google says is it, doesn’t show up anywhere, but a road that doesn’t exist shows up everywhere and has since the beginning of online maps.

 

[T-Max]

I don't understand how that stuff works, I see some that aren't listed now and again. I also see some that the "tax address" is listed as the actual address of the property, despite there being no residence, no mail delivery, sometimes no nothing.

As a side note, I don't understand where any of that online map info comes from or how it gets shared, or doesn't. EVERY single online map shows a road on my families property that doesn't exist. I submitted a "map correction" with Garmin decades ago and it did no good. There's no road and hasn't been for sure, for almost a 100 years. Knowing the terrain features and elevation changes, I doubt there ever could have been. So how does it keep getting propagated?

I have submitted a road correction to Google and Apple each month for the past two years. Still shows a road on the map that is actually a driveway. We've had several people get stuck in mud holes because they were following the map.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

It’s a mess east of the Mississippi especially. Trying to put together the millions of individual parcels based on tax maps is impossible. It’s a decent reference but should never ever be the gospel. I think I’ve owned 6 properties for hunting and not a one has ever been right. Some are so far off it’s baffling.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

Property, lines, and taxes. Good Lord. Every year I look at the tax auctions in the county where my property is and I cannot understand it. Where all these individual parcels came from, decent pieces of land with zero access, it’s understandable why people start paying taxes on them. Then other things in a town, little teeny patches of land in peoples backyards, that are their own individual pieces of property with their own tax assessment and bill. A 300 Square foot triangle in someone’s backyard. I can see why they stop paying the taxes because no one can do anything with it, but how did they get created in the first place? That’s what I can never understand.