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Garmin's TYP file format
The information is valid for standard header blocks. The manual,download below,describes its structure in greater detail and gives details of recent NT 2011/12/13 TYP files.
| address |
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description |
bytes |
| 0x0 |
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Length of header; this offset is dependent on 0x15. Mostly &5B,&6E or &7C.NT needs larger blocks. |
1 |
| 0x01 |
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0 |
1 |
| 0x02 |
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Garmin TYP signature |
10 |
| 0x0C |
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1 (other values not accepted ?) |
1 |
| 0x0D |
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FF or 00 |
1 |
| 0x0E |
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Year ; + 1900 if 0x0F=0 |
2 |
| 0x10 |
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Month |
1 |
| 0x11 |
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Day |
1 |
| 0x12 |
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Hours |
1 |
| 0x13 |
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Minutes |
1 |
| 0x14 |
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Seconds |
1 |
| 0x15 |
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Code page 1250+ (character set) |
2 |
| 0x17 |
TYP 1 |
Pointer to POIs |
4 |
| 0x1B |
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Length of POI block |
4 |
| 0x1F |
TYP 2 |
Pointer to Polylines |
4 |
| 0x23 |
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Length of Polyline block |
4 |
| 0x27 |
TYP 3 |
Pointer to Polygons |
4 |
| 0x2B |
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Length of Polygon block |
4 |
| 0x2F |
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FID |
2 |
| 0x31 |
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Product Code |
2 |
| 0x33 |
TYP 4 |
Offset Pointer to type data block for� POIS |
4 |
| 0x37 |
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Number of bytes per POI , ie 3 or 4 |
2 |
| 0x39 |
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Number of POIs / 0x37 |
4 |
| 0 x 3D |
TYP 5 |
Offset to Polyline 3 or 4 byte data block
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4 |
| 0 x 41 |
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Number of bytes per polyline 0 x 3d , ie 4 |
2 |
| 0 x 43 |
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Number of Polylines / 0x41 |
4 |
| 0 x 47 |
TYP 6 |
Offset to Polygons 3 or 4 byte data block |
4 |
| 0 x 4b |
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Length of Polygon data block,3,4,5 |
1 |
| 0 x 4d |
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Number of Polygons/0x4b |
4 |
| 0 x 51 |
TYP 7 |
Points to Polygon types' draworder block (always at the end of a TYP file?) |
4 |
| 0 x 55 |
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Number of bytes for each Polygon (ie 5) in 0 x 57 and 0 x 51 |
2 |
| 0 x 57 |
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Length of draworder block |
4 |
| 0 x 5B |
TYP 8 |
Lookup table for extra pois |
4 |
| 0 X 5f |
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Bytes for 5b |
2 |
| 0 x 61 |
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Length of this block |
4 |
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A complete list + additional information can be found at TYP Format.pdf .
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