I am looking into this one for back road trips in Thailand, Burma and Cambodia using the http://www.gpstravelmaps.com/gps-maps/

Garmin offers a map for Thailand but only bundled wit other SE Asian countries i will never visit.

any helpful suggestions/comments?

If you buy an Asia map from Garmin US, you will be very disappointed. The native Thailand map from ESRI is the best Thailand map available.

its not from Garmin.

its in the op above

just compared price;

Garmin Etrek 20 in Bangkok 12,500 baht ($347)
Via amazon $169

what a rip off here

If you buy an Asia map from Garmin US, you will be very disappointed. The native Thailand map from ESRI is the best Thailand map available.

Yep. Best map is the one of ESRI/ NOSTRA.

The most current version is CN Thailand 2015.20.

is this it? https://map.nostramap.com/Nostramap/map.aspx

pretty worthless for up north, many of the places i want to go that are on David's "golden Triangle paper map" are not on this one

doesn't work with windows 7

does it work with a garmin?

cant believe u all say this is the best

Edited April 2, 201610 yr by phuketrichard

I don't know if that is exactly the same map that is on the Garmin GPS. The map in the Garmins has nearly every navigable by car roads but you can't expect it to have hiking trails.

Removed an off-topic post.

I use my Etrek for measuring land plots, that's about it

Have you looked a the Garmin Montana series? I have had one for a couple of years, I find it to be very good and the battery lasts about 16 hours.

I also use OSM Mapping rather than the Garmin maps. Used in Northern Thailand, Laos and the Balkans.