Neat here. I was looking for the Map Magic map of Thailand, which is for sale as a CD, downloadable to your PC's HDD. I use mine often, run the cursor upcountry to a place I've not been, write down the Lat-Long at the bottom of the screen, enter that in my GPS, and off I go. Been pretty accurate that way, since I've not invested in an expensive Thai map for the GPS.

The Map Magic maps are put out by Think Net Thai, and are pretty good.. So googling for them, came up

with http://www.thinknet.co.th/06/eng/home.html which morphed to:

http://www.mapguidethailand.com/home/map.php

Expand it a bit, chase all over the country, put down a placemark where you want with your own notes.

Neat.

Mac

I looked at the site briefly but wasnt that impressed. You can download an entire map of Thailand with all POIs voice instructions to locations, the ability to add additional POIs etc for about Bt1500 to say an iphone. Then you can use it in your car, add POIs because you are there etc. Voice directions are in both Thai and English.

Why for roughly the same price be limited by your PC when it is sitting on your phone?

I didnt take a detailed look so I may not fully understand it but that was my general impression,

I looked at the site briefly but wasnt that impressed. You can download an entire map of Thailand with all POIs voice instructions to locations, the ability to add additional POIs etc for about Bt1500 to say an iphone. Then you can use it in your car, add POIs because you are there etc. Voice directions are in both Thai and English.

Why for roughly the same price be limited by your PC when it is sitting on your phone?

I didnt take a detailed look so I may not fully understand it but that was my general impression,

Well, yes, but I don't have an iPhone, or another "fancy" type one, so I do find the Map Magic maps handy. Do like the one for Bangkok, too, or more especially, the newer one for he seven "central" provinces. Use the copy on my PC often to look up places.

Then there's the folks in the U.S. who whom I emailed the urls for the online MapMagic map, they too might find it handy for trip planning, looking up the Thai wife's village, etc.

So believe it's still a worthwhile www site for many folks.

Mac

No doubt you could get by with it, then again, you could get by with a paper map. I thought it was pretty skimpy with information as well as being WAY out of date.

http://www.mapguidethailand.com/home/map.php

Good idea Mac, but maps outside BKK are very out of date.

Sanam Luang 2 doesn't exist according to Map Guide Thailand.

13.746664, 100.352189

All of the Soi numbers are wrong in Sai 4.

"Old" BKK streets should be Ok.

Cheers

Guess it may help if you have a PC and no internet, but if you're online you can use Google maps free.

For those who used GPS, you can do some tracking and share with me. for a better and accuracy GPS map.

Our Free Thailand Map will be out may be next month.

It will not cover all the road.. cos we dun have GPS tracks to support in Thailand.

Hope you guys can support.

Please drop by to our Map forum. > www-malfreemaps-com

Thank you.

Edited August 10, 200916 yr by alyem

I dont mind GPS, as I use bus and taxis to go around, however if someone can recommend a good map with a lot of POIs over SWE, will be very grateful ;-)

mapguidethailand.com is OK, but definitely lack of POIs, ie check the free udonmap.com and same location covered by mapguidethailand.com for Udon Thani - good street details for both, but at mapguide less POIs listed...

google maps provide little or no help for independent traveller, and usually GPS devices provide little or no help except driving direction too.

if you ever compared options for hotels, restourants, shopping you have in thailand and what you can learn from available digital maps, you probably feel disappointed as much as I am ;-)

The Map Guide Thailand is more detailed and has more small Roads on Phuket named than the ESRI Thailand Street Map v9.0 NT

Neat here. I was looking for the Map Magic map of Thailand, which is for sale as a CD, downloadable to your PC's HDD. I use mine often, run the cursor upcountry to a place I've not been, write down the Lat-Long at the bottom of the screen, enter that in my GPS, and off I go. Been pretty accurate that way, since I've not invested in an expensive Thai map for the GPS.

The Map Magic maps are put out by Think Net Thai, and are pretty good.. So googling for them, came up

with http://www.thinknet.co.th/06/eng/home.html which morphed to:

http://www.mapguidethailand.com/home/map.php

Expand it a bit, chase all over the country, put down a placemark where you want with your own notes.

Neat.

Mac

I've been using the MapMagic CD for several years, but having one map is simply not enough. MapMagic is good for general locations and specific points of interest, but when it comes to street names it fails miserably on the smaller sois.

I've been using Google online maps along with MapMagic and it's a lot better than relying on either one.

Am I missing something? Using the thinknet link for the map shows no points of interest. Do they have them hid on the free PC version?

The CD has names in THAI too

I like he CD online and free map in Think net set

Theres a scroll bar menu on right so you can list fuel schools police station Big C etc banks etc

Very handy if you want just say SCB or Tops

It is not very thorough or comprehensive where I live in the sticks some rds off and some tacks suitable merely for dirtbikes in wet weather or small 4x4 shown

Edited October 4, 200916 yr by RubbaJohnny

They do not seem to be selling anything but the print version of MapMagic now. The CD was good but very poorly programed as you had to wait for each scale to finish before going to another - it took forever to get from street level Bangkok to Udon province. There was no way to pan except one screen at a time and wait for new one to write. Upcountry details of roads was very poor with many not even indicated. Mapguidethailand website also suffers from programming but at least there has been some update in Bangkok to show the new RamIntra expressway extension.

Believe there is a long history of map control by Military for national security and expect it is still a damper on accurate maps.