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

**Ed_slv** · 27th September 2013, 11:09 AM

Hi, it's only me, or Mapedit with the full loader, becomes instable after 6 to 7 openings of pseudo-NT maps?
TIA

**rebelneo** · 27th September 2013, 11:42 AM

Registration software periodically falls all users. It is the GPSMapedit protection .

**catymag** · 27th September 2013, 03:52 PM

Better to buy it

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

**ddabcd277** · 27th September 2013, 04:00 PM

But it is violating copyright rules and harms garmin map developers.

**kunix** · 27th September 2013, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by catymag

Better to buy it

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

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

**catymag** · 27th September 2013, 04:24 PM

@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.

**catymag** · 27th September 2013, 04:26 PM

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

**Ed_slv** · 27th September 2013, 05:58 PM

Hi. Thats my case I ve a GPSmapedit v1 license. Check picture in post #46

**kunix** · 27th September 2013, 06:04 PM

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.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
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).