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Use City Navigator Europe NT with MapSource 6.13.7

Use City Navigator Europe NT with MapSource 6.13.7

MapReverseConverter has been downloaded a lot, but apparently it's used mainly for illegal purposes, so I decided to take it off-line.
If you like to have the program to use it for its original purpose (i.e. using new, legally obtained maps with MapSource version 6.13.7 simply because it's faster than the newer versions), send me an email with a request to get the program mailed to you. Requests sent from a free mail account like Hotmail will not be considered.

When you install City Navigator Europe NT (or a nüMaps Lifetime update for this map), MapSource 6.15.x will be installed too. 6.15.x is much slower than 6.13.7; on an older PC it might even be unworkable (not to mention the ugly distortion of the maps).
The problem is that MapSource 6.13.7 cannot use these maps, because the files have a new format (actually the same as RoadTrip for Mac OS X uses).

Some members of the German forum Naviboard.de found a solution to convert the new files to the format that MapSource 6.13.7 uses. Their solution is not so easy to use, so I created the program MapReverseConverter to make te conversion process easier (the actual conversion is done by the program GMaptool, the same as the Naviboard solution).
MapReverseConverter is an universal program, not only for City Navigator Europe NT, but for any map in the new format.

After the conversion process you will have two sets of maps on your PC, the original and the converted one. If you want, you can remove the original files, preferrably through the Control Panel of Windows. Newer versions of MapSource still work with the converted maps, so upgrading MapSource is always possible.

When you don't have MapSource 6.13.7 (anymore), you can download it here: http://www.gawisp.com/perry/mapsource/

With every update of nüMaps Lifetime you will need to run MapReverseConverter again.

Why is it called 'MapReverseConverter'?
RoadTrip for Mac OS X cannot use maps in the old format. For getting these maps to work with RoadTrip you need to use Garmin's program 'MapConverter', which converts map files to the new format. My program does the reverse, hence the name...

 

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