Hiking Compass & Maps - Where?

[Hachi]

Greetings.

A search around the few stores I thought would carry sighting (mirror) compasses - north side of moat, KSK & Airport Plaza - appear to stock only cheap China made models.

Does anyone know where in town to buy a decent quality compass, and hiking/topographical maps for Thailand/northern region?

Thank you.

[alfieconn]

This link might be helpfull www.cmhike.com

[cloudhopper]

All the compasses I've seen around are crap. Suriwong book store has topo maps and a PM to TV member mapguy sounds like it could be fruitful...

[Hachi]

Thanks for your replies.

[rcjoop]

D.K books at the moat sells some topo maps as well.

I have a Swiss made Recta DP-6 in mint condition which I do not use any more.

P.M. me if interested

Joop

[jackr]

Did the (very cute) bird on floor 3, Plaza, not have any good ones?

Ever considered ditching all that old world stuff and go with an iPhone with GPS?

[chiangmaibruce]

I had a look at the topo maps in DK a while back and I noticed that maps dealing with areas anywhere close to the border areas were only large scale or missing due to army sensitivity or some such security concern. This seems a bit redundant given the level of detail in google maps now. I downloaded the 3D add-on (for google maps) the other week - amazing - I almost got airsick while playing around with it.

[cloudhopper]

Same with the topos at Suriwong. But there are probably better places to be hiking than sensitive border areas, with or without a good map.