Thread: Install .img (NT) on Basecamp with search functionality?

Originally Posted by Dougo

I knew you couldn't do it with gmaptool alone. I brewed up a map by using gpsdaemon to extract some small .img files, and the MD2, IDX, and TYP from a gmapsupp.img, joined them with gmaptool, and threw it in the GPSr, but no joy: no search for addresses. ......

I think you probably misunderstood what i meant, i wasn't referring only to gmaptool when i wrote 'That applies whatever known software you use to make the install version'. I mean any known reverse-engineering method and no known software program can help you because of their common inability to decode the data in the image file's MDR subfile. That's needed for search function and none can make an install version with MDR, so: No MDR = No search.

Mapparoni has given you an excellent alternate solution to using the full Garmin img Topos imo. Worldwide, OSM based mapping is getting better all the time.

Originally Posted by Neil

I think you probably misunderstood what i meant....

No, I understood what you wrote. I was just giving you a humorous example, to confirm and illustrate your statement, of how I had previously tried "brewing up" a map that didn't work. As I said, I like having an OSM along with a Garmin map because they'll have detail that the Garmin maps don't, and I appreciate the link to freizeitkarte-osm.de It's a nice high speed zip download, and has a Basecamp installer, and I can select just the region I need, so it'll keep that map to about 15 Mb. Thanks for the information about the size limit on sd cards in post #4, very interesting and good to know.