Garmin City Navigator China 2013.30 Official + Venus

**Neil** · 16th December 2013, 05:56 AM

@jeff8643
I'm aware that this is a Chinese map thread, however the Board language is English only [except in the International Zone]. Non-English posts are usually [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. It's not hard to use an on-line translator if you do have problems posting directly in EN.

If your question is "Why are the three map image files the same size?", it's because they are [basically] the same map.

**nijawang** · 9th January 2014, 07:41 AM

Hi,

How could I get a shift-corrected Venus China map?
I download "Venus 2013.30 Detailed Map with content of NT17 (Venus-CN-China-2013.30-CHS-NT17.rar)" and unlocked it.
Then I put the unlocked image to Oregon 400t GPSr (non China version) but I found there is still shift exists.
For example, I choose a POI from GPSr, Inter Continental Shanghai Expo.
Its coordinate in GPSr is 31'12.068" 121'30.029".
But I check the same POI in Google Maps, the coordinate is 31'11.949" 121'30.318"!
There is a quite large distance between these two coordinates!

If I miss something?
Should I use a China basemap? or 006B082300.bin files?

Thank you.

Spoiler: image

syzygy · 9th January 2014, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by nijawang

Hi,

How could I get a shift-corrected Venus China map?
I download "Venus 2013.30 Detailed Map with content of NT17 (Venus-CN-China-2013.30-CHS-NT17.rar)" and unlocked it.
Then I put the unlocked image to Oregon 400t GPSr (non China version) but I found there is still shift exists.
For example, I choose a POI from GPSr, Inter Continental Shanghai Expo.
Its coordinate in GPSr is 31'12.068" 121'30.029".
But I check the same POI in Google Maps, the coordinate is 31'11.949" 121'30.318"!
There is a quite large distance between these two coordinates!

If I miss something?
Should I use a China basemap? or 006B082300.bin files?

Thank you.

Spoiler: image

You already have the right Venus shift-corrected map installed. If you enter your GPSr coordinates to Google Earth (NOTE: not Google Map) you will find it is exactly the location of that hotel, even with 3D view of the building.

The Google Map you quoted has shift added to it as required by the law of PRC.

**nijawang** · 9th January 2014, 09:35 AM

Hi syzygy,

Thanks for your comment.
It's really the actual coordinate in Google Earth.
This is my first time to use Venus shift-corrected map.
Anyway, it's very useful for me.

Thanks a lot.

**jeff8643** · 16th January 2014, 12:14 PM

I downloaded type 9, then copy it into a SD card, put it under the subdirectory of Garmin. but it shows" cannot unlock maps". What is wrong? Thanks!

**Neil** · 16th January 2014, 12:31 PM

@jeff8643
Maybe you missed this in Post #1?:

Unlock with [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

**jeff8643** · 19th January 2014, 04:30 AM

thanks for your reply. I tried to drag the image file over the icon of gimgunlock.exe, a new screen shows up with" Garmin Unlocker by whocares? press any key to exit". can you tell me more detail? Thanks in advance.

**Neil** · 19th January 2014, 05:04 AM

I think you're using [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] which is for old version MS format unlocking. It's gimunlock.exe that you need: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].