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@scubadooOriginally Posted by scubadoo
Yellow Duck & I were referring to it being misleading in the legal sense. A learned discussion on what exactly 'reverse engineering NT' entails, although very, very interesting, has little to do with the fact that by prominently disclosing non-support of Bluecharts while ignoring any further 'obligation' by them to also disclose that NT format (and 'pseudo-NT' for that matter) are similarly unsupported, is essentially misleading. Whether there are 10 or 1,000 other real-time nav apps and whether those others do or do not disclose such support/non-support by them is immaterial to me. The irony of ethics/legal obligations being discussed in this venue in not lost on me however, but I don't regret starting it because it has indirectly led to the examination of what exactly is the usual meaning of 'manipulating/reverse engineering' NT. I do absolutely see Caty's point that extracting EMP etc, and particularly the gentleman-genius popej's method of building pseudo-NT from NT, fall into that category. I also see clearly your point that the actual 'decode' of the core of NT remains unknown outside of Garmin as far as we know. Maybe someone has done it but is sitting on it because Garmin would probably embark on a seek & destroy mission not seen since the hunt for Osama Bin Laden? We probably should all just agree to disagree on the semantics of 'manipulating/reverse engineering' NT, but imho it is only partial possible and won't be complete until NT is fully cr@cked. OMG! I think i just agreed with a Kiwi. Oh well, life's not perfect. If you actually meant this: "Many (most?) here are fully aware that no one on Earth has yet FULLY reverse engineered Garmin the NT .img format" then we would all be in complete accord.
On another somewhat OT note (my specialty), does the name 'Fugawi' emanate from whence I suspect, i.e. the name of that legendary positionally unaware tribe, who ran around yelling 'We're (where) the Fugawi' ?? Or for the sake of politeness, is it pronounced 'foog-a-y'? Perhaps Yellow Duck knows for sure? LOL!
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