Thread: Convert garmin .img pseudo-NT to non-NT? I know it's possible, but how?(SOLVED!!!)

Better to buy it It's a great software, it worths your money, if you need to build good maps.

Originally Posted by kunix

But the problem is, even perfectly legal registration info is not accepted if EXE is patched, which is used when loading pseudo-NT maps.

Ok, understood, thanks

Originally Posted by Cnfhbr

Thus, I believe that the patching of this program is not shameful.

But each have own conception of light and dark sides

Practice is show what if you need to good maps the soft must be free for use. It is very good start for developer because if it is not so they see on other soft. All the more so this program always looks as semi criminal soft! Hackers dread it nonetheless

@ddabcd277
I was talking about buying GPSMapedit program in general instead of cr@cking it, not about how to kill 3-rd party map publishers.
I wont stop/close/delete this thread, but I can agree with what has been written in this thread previously:

Originally Posted by Kanopus

Decompiling maps is a quite different matter than unlocking maps.

There are many companies, which own digital data suitable for GPS maps. I think in each country there could be a few such companies. They could have better local data than Navteq. Or they sell data to Navteq. Actually they could sell data to any publisher who releases maps. But there is condition - no leaks including no possibility to decompile their data. Since cgpsmapper gives no protection, there are nearly no alternative commercial maps. We get one City Navigator Europe, one Topo Germany, one Topo France etc. And Garmin control market, they don't sell their tools to competition.

I'm curious, so interested in this thread, but how people is going to use all these infos can be dangerous IMHO.

I've found that setting the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag (=0x20) in the Flags value of MapEdit.exe's PE Header allows it to open larger map files.
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Note that on 32-bit systems you would also have to add /3GB switch to the boot configuration of Windows, which could be dangerous (your 32-bit Windows could stop booting).


rebelneo, can you add this patch to your patcher with an option to enable/disable it? (I'm afraid, it has to be an on-disk patch, not in-memory one).