Quote Originally Posted by Schermann View Post
No, the key word here is USE!

I suppose the real question is does this device lock feature apply to unlocked file imgs got from this site?
No it doesn't apply if the keyword is 'use', but only an unlocked image can be used on all devices which are capable of using that type of map image. To give you a personal example Scherms, if you have an official [purchased or LM] City Navigator map image on your nuvi50 it is 'locked' to that one device and will only work in it's internal memory or on a microSD inserted in the 50, provided the associated unlock/gma files are still present. If you copy and paste the img file, even with the unlock and gma codes, to the internal memory of any other device, or if you insert that card in any other device including of course your eTrex, it will not work.

The 'device lock feature' to which you're referring is the GMA protection and it's associated *.gma file and the unlock codes which bind the image to a specific unit. As Caty points out this is easily overcome with gimgunlock and the image is then fully 'unlocked' and usable universally without any gma/unl codes.

As far as using the 'locked' image file on multiple computers as per your initial post, locked or unlocked it's no problem for BaseCamp.