Does anyone know of a source of place marks/way marks for the bus stops in Bangkok ? A partial set would be fine to get going with.

The latest ThinkNet Bangkok Map software has some bus routes on there but these don't appear to be something that is discussed in the documentation. Also for the few bus routes included, it appears to be represented by a single point. This isnt really what I'm looking for.

I intend to contact ThinkNet to see if they have what I'm looking for, but of course this would come at a price. I have not see bus stops marked on any of their products I have seen, but I suspect that may well have this info.

If anyone could shed some further light on this or suggest further lines of enquiry, I would appreciate that.

Thanks in advance...

Edited February 28, 201016 yr by Khun Bob

Google Maps has bus stops on the map of Bangkok, but you are probably looking for a table of coordinates of the bus stops for each route.

If you want to look up the coordinates of bus stops on Google Maps, you will find ThaiVisa's look-up tool useful (pinned topic at the top of this forum):

http://directory.thaivisa.com/geocode.php

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Maestro

Thanks for the reply.

So with the tool mentioned I would need to locate each bus stop, on the map and this would gibve me the coordinates of it ? Seems like potentially a lot of work, or am I misunderstanding something ?

Is there anyway in Google maps to do a search on a particular feature and just be given a list of these, then from that do some coordinate conversion ? Note - I haven't used Google Maps at all.

Cheers

Google Maps has bus stops on the map of Bangkok, but you are probably looking for a table of coordinates of the bus stops for each route.

If you want to look up the coordinates of bus stops on Google Maps, you will find ThaiVisa's look-up tool useful (pinned topic at the top of this forum):

http://directory.thaivisa.com/geocode.php

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Maestro

Edited March 8, 201016 yr by Khun Bob

There are about 275 bus routes in Bangkok, and thousands of bus stops.

The placemat would have to be one meter square to be legible.

…Is there anyway in Google maps to do a search on a particular feature and just be given a list of these, then from that do some coordinate conversion ? Note - I haven't used Google Maps at all…

I’m afraid there’s no search function on Google Maps to get a list of coordinates for bus stops. You would still have to do it one by one for each bus stop and on Google Maps it is more laborious than with the ThaiVisa look-up tool. Right-click on the bus stop, click on “Center Map here”, click on “Link” at the top right of the screen, copy the text from the field “Paste link in email or IM “, paste it into a text processor, from that text extract the coordinates. Example of the text for a bus stop on Silom Road, Bangkok:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=13.727806,100.532155&sll=13.727806,100.532155&sspn=0.005795,0.006899&ie=UTF8&ll=13.727837,100.531919&spn=0.01159,0.013797&z=16

The coordinates are 13.727837,100.531919

From the footer on the Google Map I understand that Google uses data of Tele Atlas, which means that the raw data, ie the database of coordinates for bus stops, is owned by Tele Atlas. I don’t see a way for you get at this data without negotiating for it with Tele Atlas. It probably won’t come cheap.

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Maestro

The placemat…

Placemarks, not placemats. A placemark is a tiny litlte icon (image), a marker, on a map. See the map below with placemarks for two bus stops on Silom Road, Bangkok.

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Maestro