New subforum:

Thailand Maps, GPS Placemarks

Here we can discuss thailand related placemarks, digital mapping, GPS coordinates etc.

Moderators are sunem and Maestro.

Great idea!

New subforum:

Thailand Maps, GPS Placemarks

Here we can discuss thailand related placemarks, digital mapping, GPS coordinates etc.

Moderators are sunem and Maestro.

Very good idea!

I have lots of interesting Waypoints, mainly in the south of Thailand. How to submit them?

By the way, I use Garmin GPS60, with ESRI map on it.

Regards, Arjen.

May be just as a link in Google maps like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...154495&z=13

...whilst using exact longitude and latitude, or a file attachment as being used by Google Earth (KMZ, see attachment)). Then everybody can watch those waypoints even without having an ESRI map.

View_e.V..kmz

This is a terrific idea.

Can you give us a little more on how you want it to work? IE are we just going to give co-ordinates or whatever?

DaveB

New subforum:

Thailand Maps, GPS Placemarks

Here we can discuss thailand related placemarks, digital mapping, GPS coordinates etc.

Moderators are sunem and Maestro.

Very good idea!

I have lots of interesting Waypoints, mainly in the south of Thailand. How to submit them?

By the way, I use Garmin GPS60, with ESRI map on it.

Regards, Arjen.

May be just as a link in Google maps like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...154495&z=13

...whilst using exact longitude and latitude, or a file attachment as being used by Google Earth (KMZ, see attachment)). Then everybody can watch those waypoints even without having an ESRI map.

Good, please tell me how to work this thing out, I want to look at Ubon Rachathany 60km villages

New subforum:

Thailand Maps, GPS Placemarks

Here we can discuss thailand related placemarks, digital mapping, GPS coordinates etc.

Moderators are sunem and Maestro.

Very good idea!

I have lots of interesting Waypoints, mainly in the south of Thailand. How to submit them?

By the way, I use Garmin GPS60, with ESRI map on it.

Regards, Arjen.

May be just as a link in Google maps like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...154495&z=13

...whilst using exact longitude and latitude, or a file attachment as being used by Google Earth (KMZ, see attachment)). Then everybody can watch those waypoints even without having an ESRI map.

Good, please tell me how to work this thing out, I want to look at Ubon Rachathany 60km villages

Just paste the coordinates of whatever place into Google Earth or http://www.maps.google.com. Do it in this format, i.e.

7 1'39.79"N, 100 29'32.62"E

Then you be directed exactly to that point on the Globe (Google maps). Google Earth can also be set to other formats. When you get there (Google Earth) you can set a marker (ad placemark)and name it as you like (name.kmz). Then you can send the marker as a fileattach. The recipient, given he has Google Earth installed, flies right into that place by cklicking onto the KMZ file.

Although I have Google Earth installed on my computers I prefer to look up a place on Google Maps. I find Google Earth a bit unwieldy and when I have to give somebody a link to a place (immigration office, hotel, restaurant) I give a Google Map link.

Talking about immigration offices in Thailand, I started creating placemarks for them on this map:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&m...f03d84d91df360b

Still in their infancy are my maps for Thailand's passport offices (to get a Thai passport) and motor vehicle department offices (to get a Thai driving licence)

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Maestro

...I have lots of interesting Waypoints, mainly in the south of Thailand. How to submit them?

By the way, I use Garmin GPS60, with ESRI map on it...

It’s kind of you to offer to share your waypoints with the forum.

Would you like to create your own map and then post a link to it?

In what form do you have the waypoints at the moment. Are they stored on your Garmin? In what format?

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Maestro

i have this nokia 5800 mobile phone and it has GPS OVI system from Nokia

i used it recently and it got me into BKK alright but then when i went back to Hua Hin it put me back on the freeway - off the freeway - do a u-turn - until i was completely frustrated and lost - IT speaks the directions

bottom line is the maps werent up to date

so how to get maps up to date?

Nokia and OVI dont have them

Don,t know if the above works. Why?

I collected a lot of coordinates of places I wanted to find again in Thailand with my hand held GPS. Long before the newly GPS System started in Thailand like it did in other countries.

In the end I found out that the coordinates I found did not match with the ones in google. So I did not find my house, land, lovely beach etc. again. In fact they appeared miles away. Some of them even in the sea.

Please check yourself if the same happen to your data?

The GPS providers also clearly state that they will change the coordinates in case of emergencies like war and other things.

But may be these equipments work beter today or they have an automatic updating to avoid the above?

...The GPS providers also clearly state that they will change the coordinates in case of emergencies like war and other things.

What "GPS Providers" are you talking about?

The GPS signals are generated by satellites owned and controlled by the US government. It has stopped the fuzzying of the signal (decreasing the accuracy of civilian receivers by a factor of 100) in 1999. It "could" restart it anytime but it is unlikely as it also has the same capability to do it more locally on a battlefield without creating havoc in the rest of the world. Other than that, the coverage is global, worldwide (these satellites don't know borders, they are not geostationary as they go around the globe every 12 hours)

The GPS receiver always determines the proper "coordinates" (with more or less accuracy) as long as it receives enough signals. There is not such as thing as "changing the coordinates" that are calculated by the device. What may be in error are the coordinates of any given location on a given map. The GPS receivers vendors have NO capability to access their products to "change the coordinates" on a map unless they do it through a map or firmware update (but you still have control about that).

So the quality of the map is what needs to be looked at.

Edited June 6, 200917 yr by Jale

i have this nokia 5800 mobile phone and it has GPS OVI system from Nokia

i used it recently and it got me into BKK alright but then when i went back to Hua Hin it put me back on the freeway - off the freeway - do a u-turn - until i was completely frustrated and lost - IT speaks the directions

bottom line is the maps werent up to date

so how to get maps up to date?

Nokia and OVI dont have them

Take a look here for instructions to download Nokia maps. Worked fine on my 5800. Otherwise I can recommend the Garmin software. ESRI Thailand have a Thailand map for it. Works without problems on the 5800.

Edited June 7, 200917 yr by lothda

I think this is a pretty good one:

http://rcmaps.googlepages.com/home

I installed this maps at my desktop computer, importing and exporting waypoints relatively easy, I pasted the ones for Vientieane to my website:

http://travelmaps.la

just to have reference during my visitis to Laos ;-)

never tried with Garmin though, but should be even easier than installing to desktop I guess ;-)

The link below rcmaps.googlepages.com takes you to a web page, then to a forum which needs you to join up to download the map, when I go to join it wants me to except the terms of the forum but there is no where to accept the terms. can you help, I would like to join the site.

I think this is a pretty good one:

http://rcmaps.googlepages.com/home

I installed this maps at my desktop computer, importing and exporting waypoints relatively easy, I pasted the ones for Vientieane to my website:

http://travelmaps.la

just to have reference during my visitis to Laos ;-)

never tried with Garmin though, but should be even easier than installing to desktop I guess ;-)

I have tried to recreate you problem but am not sure on what particular page on that site your were. Was it this page?

(I don’t know how it is at your end but on my computer, in Switzerland, pages on this website take an age to load)

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Maestro

i have this nokia 5800 mobile phone and it has GPS OVI system from Nokia

i used it recently and it got me into BKK alright but then when i went back to Hua Hin it put me back on the freeway - off the freeway - do a u-turn - until i was completely frustrated and lost - IT speaks the directions

bottom line is the maps werent up to date

so how to get maps up to date?

Nokia and OVI dont have them

Take a look here for instructions to download Nokia maps. Worked fine on my 5800. Otherwise I can recommend the Garmin software. ESRI Thailand have a Thailand map for it. Works without problems on the 5800.

We have used Nokia phones with GPS and it is fantastic. But you have to choose if you want to go "nearest" way or "fastest" way!

We took "nearest" and we were on the highway, directed into an village, over ricepaddys on dirtroads etc etc. It was the nearest way and we saw a lot of Thailand that we never seen before!

But with "fastest" way you are directed on highways most of the time!