Venus Series & Official City Navigator China 2011.12 NT CHS

syzygy · 29th April 2011, 02:43 AM

Requirements: Any Garmin device and software supporting NT maps and Chinese language

The official Garmin China maps have artificial shift (coordinate deviation) added for national security reasons. Using these maps on normal GPS devices or software will not display your actual location on the map. Instead, you will be a few hundred meters away from your actual location. Only GPS devices and software approved to be sold in the China market have additional built-in firmware or program to use these maps without shift problems. Even so, the saved waypoints, routes, tracks are still shifted. Neither can topo maps be used with them.

Venus is a series of maps derived from the official Garmin China maps but with shifts corrected. Nothing but the coordinates are changed, so all road, POI info, as well as routing, searching capabilities remain intact. Saved waypoints, routes, tracks will have no shift problems. Compatible with topo maps too. These maps can be used on any regular Garmin GPS devices and software as other maps. However, some maps are in Chinese language only and require Chinese support on your device to display and search in Chinese.

Disclaimers:
1. No guarantee or warranty is given. Use at your own risk.
2. The correction is not perfect yet. A few places may have a gap between roads.

For this 2011.12 map:
a. Map is locked.
b. Map ID is 2111.
c. All road and POI names are in simplified Chinese.
d. This map should fix the search problem of 2011.11 map that many users had.

Download Site:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Mirror:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

syzygy · 29th April 2011, 02:48 AM

For those who would like to have the original shifted maps, here are the official download links where N can be any number from 1 to 8, except 3.

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**betahash** · 29th April 2011, 05:29 PM

some fan said the jcv file for this file is different from 2o11.11, which is suggested to upgrade as well.

**canovoo** · 30th April 2011, 06:19 AM

can download jcv file for 2011.12 from offical site,the url as syzygy list.

**jbm77** · 30th April 2011, 09:44 PM

A small guide on file size, but not sure which file work with whuch machine;
Type 1 - 1.32GB
Type 2 - 1.33GB
Type 4 - 835MB
Type 5 - 2.63GB
Type 6 - 1.81GB
Type 7 - 1.35GB
Type 8 - 1.29GB

I'm try d/l the Type 5 now & see if it fit my 3790T, will update here later.

Thanks to syzygy.

**ander7724** · 1st May 2011, 04:03 AM

oh my... 2011.12 already? i just finished downloading 2011.11... haha... anything new in this 2011.12?

**shinjizh** · 14th May 2011, 11:56 PM

Not sure if any one find 3d building image file.
On ly find old version, not sure if it fit new model.

**jbm77** · 15th May 2011, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by shinjizh

Not sure if any one find 3d building image file.
On ly find old version, not sure if it fit new model.

The type 5 have all-in-1 file; map, JCV, Dem, 3D + ASR.
I had tested them OK on my 3790 SG/MY, except the ASR, all original file is "LOCKED", need un-Lock process.