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    Navigation software expert Convert garmin .img pseudo-NT to non-NT? I know it's possible, but how?(SOLVED!!!)
    Convert garmin .img pseudo-NT to non-NT? I know it's possible, but how?(SOLVED!!!)Convert garmin .img pseudo-NT to non-NT? I know it's possible, but how?(SOLVED!!!)Convert garmin .img pseudo-NT to non-NT? I know it's possible, but how?(SOLVED!!!)
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    Forget it! No one is interested!
    Even Garmin can not adopt a new modification of this format for the old devices now Oldschool died!
    Garmin, how much is 30 pieces of silver for Judas today? Were they worthy for crucifix of GPSPower?

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    Well, I would answer this as yes and no.
    A locked map, with 0x80 in [0x0D] in TRE header, can be opened and converted to any format.

    A map with GMP-structure, (Garmin Map Protection?) can't be opened and converted.... yet.

    /BitBender
    Last edited by Boki; 24th March 2022 at 08:20 PM. Reason: approved

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    Important User Convert garmin .img pseudo-NT to non-NT? I know it's possible, but how?(SOLVED!!!)
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    The answer is No.

    Don't confuse the way the maps are packed (not compressed) in the img file with the format of the map.
    img files are containers, they can embed one or more maps.
    There are two ways to pack maps in an img:
    - standard packing: all sub-files (TRE, RGN, LBL, NET, NOD, DEM, TYP, MDR, SRT, MPS, MD2, TRF, QSI, IDX, MMR, SID, TDB, etc.) are put together, one after another, in the img file.
    - GMP packing: for each tile, the 9 main subfiles (TRE, RGN, LBL, NET, NOD, DEM, MAR, MET(1), MET(2)) are packed in a container named GMP, then, all the GMP files and the other subfiles (TYP, MDR, SRT, MPS, MD2, TRF, QSI, IDX, MMR, SID, TDB, etc...) are packed in the img container.

    It is not difficult to convert a mapset packed in one method to the other method (when possible but not always possible as we will see later).

    The format of the map is another totally different concept: it is how data is stored inside each subfile (RGN, NET, NOD etc..). In NT format, points, polygons and polylines coordinates are usually Huffmann compressed (but not necessarily) and, most importantly, all routing data in the NET and NOD subfiles is fundamentally different from the data stored in the NET and NOD subfiles of the old format. . Moreover, the new format (NT format) has made it possible to develop new functionalities (such as point addressing and others...) which did not exist in the old format. So converting maps in NT format to the older format is impossible, unless you lose a lot of data and functionalities and, again, assuming someone is able to parse the data in the format subfiles NT.

    So converting map in Old Standard from standard packing to GMP packing is easy (it's what someone called a pseudo-NT map but it has nothing to do with the NT format!) and also for the reverse but converting NT Format to Old Format is impossible.

    Furthermore, maps in the Old Format can be packed either in standard packing or in GMP packing but maps in NT Format are necessarily packed in GMP packing: NT Format is incompatible with the standard packing.

 

 

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