Thinking that placemarks on Google Maps for all immigration offices in Thailand would be useful to ThaiVisa members I started this map:

Thailand Immigration Offices

It is still a work in progress and I could use all the help I can get. There is a list of immigration offices with their addresses on the website of the immigration police (link “Checkpoints”) but unfortunately that information is insufficient to pinpoint the exact location. Google Mapls works with street names and house numbers but for Thailand does not have house number, and in some areas not even street names. Furthermore, there are many different ways to transliterate street names and the names uses by immigration rarely match those on Google Maps.

Therefore, if any member reading this topic can give me the GPS co-ordinates for an immigration office that I haven’t got on the aforementioned map yet I will greatly appreciate it if he will kindly post them here.

My map of immigration offices is just a start. Other ideas are for maps of

– motor vehicle department offices

– passport offices

– employment department offices

– Thai embassies worldwide

– foreign embassies and consulates in Thailand

Please help me if you can.

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Maestro

Chiang Khan immigration office coordinates;

N17 53.917 E101 39.879

This is NOT a border crossing. I use this office for my extensions and 90 day check ins.

Tha LI border crossing coordinates;

N17 41.405 E101 23.657

There is an office in Tha Li and also this border crossing. I have never been to the office in Tha Li.

Thank you, Gary. I’ll get to work on it tomorrow (Swiss time). Your are right, it is important to make the distinction between

• immigration offices ( where you get the extension of stay, re-entry permit, etc), and
  
• border crossings (where your get the arrival stamps and departure stamps)
  

Strangely enough, the website of the immigration police uses “checkpoints” for the immigration offices, like some other confusing English terms for their services.

I suspect that some of my placemarks in the Northeast for immigration offices may in fact be border crossings (Mekhong river), although I understand that in some cases the immigration office apparently is only a few metres from the border crossing. I’ll be glad if those in the area will double-check it for me.

Now I have to decide whether to make a separate map for the border crossings or add them to the existing map of immigration offices and rename that map accordingly. The more placemarks there are on a map, the more slowly the page will load, I have noticed. On the other hand, immigration offices and border crossings – should I call them immigration entry points, I wonder – are very closely linked. Decisions, decisions!

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Maestro

Thank you, Gary. I’ll get to work on it tomorrow (Swiss time). Your are right, it is important to make the distinction between

• immigration offices ( where you get the extension of stay, re-entry permit, etc), and
  
• border crossings (where your get the arrival stamps and departure stamps)
  

Strangely enough, the website of the immigration police uses “checkpoints” for the immigration offices, like some other confusing English terms for their services.

I suspect that some of my placemarks in the Northeast for immigration offices may in fact be border crossings (Mekhong river), although I understand that in some cases the immigration office apparently is only a few metres from the border crossing. I’ll be glad if those in the area will double-check it for me.

Now I have to decide whether to make a separate map for the border crossings or add them to the existing map of immigration offices and rename that map accordingly. The more placemarks there are on a map, the more slowly the page will load, I have noticed. On the other hand, immigration offices and border crossings – should I call them immigration entry points, I wonder – are very closely linked. Decisions, decisions!

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Maestro

I have a friend who must do the in and out border runs. He cannot do that at Chiang Khan. I took him to Tha Li and he had no problem there. The office is small and you have to use an outside window rather than being able to go inside an office. On one of my 90 day check ins at Chiang Khan, I talked to an angry Brit who was told the he had to go to Nong Khai for his in and out border run. I told him he could go to Thai Li but he had decided to go to Nong Khai.

As a side note, the Tha Li crossing is just a small river and not the Mekong. I could nearly spit across that river.

Chiang Khan immigration office coordinates;

N17 53.917 E101 39.879

I see I already have a placemark for the Chiang Khan immigration office, given to me by a member in the Visa forum, but your coordinates are 110 metres further up the road (further south). Both co-ordinates are on the road and I would prefer to put my placemark directly on the building. Can you tell me which building on that road it is?

To give me the exact co-ordinates, please do the following on this Google map:

• right-click on the building of the immigration office
  
• click on "Center map here"
  
• at the top right of the screen, click on "Link"
  
• copy/paste the link into your reply in this topic
  

I will then move my placemark to the building indicated by your link.

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Maestro

Chiang Khan immigration office coordinates;

N17 53.917 E101 39.879

I see I already have a placemark for the Chiang Khan immigration office, given to me by a member in the Visa forum, but your coordinates are 110 metres further up the road (further south). Both co-ordinates are on the road and I would prefer to put my placemark directly on the building. Can you tell me which building on that road it is?

To give me the exact co-ordinates, please do the following on this Google map:

• right-click on the building of the immigration office
  
• click on "Center map here"
  
• at the top right of the screen, click on "Link"
  
• copy/paste the link into your reply in this topic
  

I will then move my placemark to the building indicated by your link.

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Maestro

For the Chiang Khan office, my coordinates are taken from the parking lot. There are a lot of government buildings nearby. The office we want is directly across the street from the parking lot. I can't see the building on Google. The office is on the road that runs along the river and not on the small road shown.

For Tha Li, those coordinates are also from the parking lot. The office is on the same side as the parking lot when walking towards the small bridge.

EDIT - After looking some more, I think the actual Chiang Khan building is about midway between my stick pin and the red mark. The building is along the river road and not on the small road running off the river road.

Thank you, Gary. You’ve been a great help.

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Maestro