-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Thai maps form the RTSD Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:47:38 +0000 From: obiwon five <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Information on maps of Thailand available from the Royal Thai Survey Department. The Royal Thai Survey Department (RTSD) has its HQ and public sales counter in Bangkok. It's website is in Thai only, and often uses Thai rather than Arabic numbers for prices, editions, dates etc. Here are some links of use should you have a Thai speaker to assist. Luckily the URL links are in English so you can get a basic idea of what's on any linked page by pointing your mouse at the link! Paper maps information http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service01.html Digital maps information http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service02.html Aerial photography information http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service03.html some basic GIS .dgn files (named in English!) are available to download free at http://www.rtsd.mi.th/serviceDL03.html order form for maps (in Thai) is at http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/06/6_1/PDF/form_mapsheet.pdf order form for aerial photograpy (in Thai) http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/06/6_1/PDF/form_aerial.pdf price list for aerial photography (in Thai) http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/06/6_1/PDF/price_aerial.pdf *********************** The main series of interest to list members (because they are a) available to the public, and b)blingual) are given below (1:250,000 and 1:50,000 topographic series, Atlas of Thailand sheets), with brief info on other series (city plans, 1:25,000 topos) at the bottom of the email. ********************* 1:250,000 topographic JOGs The 250k series are JOGs, series 1501S, bilingual Thai/English and dated in both Thai and Western chronologies (AD 2007 = Thai year 2550). Dates are generally in the range 1983-1997. Separate JOG Air and JOG ground series (1501A, 1501G) are restricted to official use only. 48 of the 52 sheets of series 1501S are available to the public, for 70THB each. The other 4 are unavailable, apparently even to official users, due to small border disputes with Burma and Laos. These 4 are: ND47-2 Ye (border dispute is in Three Pagodas Pass), ND48-3 Saravane (dispute is east of Ubon Ratchathani), NE 47-2 Amphoe Chiang Dao and NF47-15 Amphoe Mae Chan (dispute is N of Chinag Rai). Digital files are available, but to official Thai users only. A downloadable index which also shows the 4 sheets unavailable due to border disputes is at http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/06/04Download/index1501/INDEX_1501.zip ******************** 1:50,000 topographic The 50k sheets come in 4 series, all on the same sheet grid. There are 830 maps to cover Thailand. All appear to be available as vector files, raster files and as paper maps. However for non-official Thai users, only some paper maps are available. L7017 is a general series with a 1km grid. It is available to Thai govt/military users only for 40THB/sheet L7017S is the same maps without the 1km grid and are available to the public (Thai and foreign) for 80THB each. Only 351 sheets (42%) of the country is so available, all sheets being well away from any borders, but even large inland areas are also strangely unavailable. L7018 and L7108S are similarly WGS84-gridded and non-gridded editions of military-specification mapping, with accurate contours, better road/settlement classification, and a style like Australian or US DoD 50k mapping. Again the costs for official Thai users are 40THB/80THB each, and for the public, 100THB. The public can currently buy 32 sheets in series L7018S covering the area affected by the 2004 Tsunami. This includes Phuket and surrounds on the west coast of the Kra isthmus. The sheets so available are: 4627-1,2 4727-1,2,3,4 4626-1,2,3 4726-1,2,3,4 4625-1,2 4725-1,2,3,4 4825-1,3,4 4624-1 4724-1,2,4 4824-1,2,3,4 4923-1,4 Compared to L7018/L7018S, the series L7017/L7017S have fewer colours, no detail as to road surface/width/settlement classification, and less accurately drawn contours, etc. All serries do have lat/long marked in each corner. As with the JOG series above, All four of the 50k series have 7 sheets that are pretty much completely unavailable due to border disputes. These sheets are 1) Three Pagodas Pass with Burma (1 sheet 4639-I), 2) the northern section of the Thai/Burma border(4 sheets - 4849-II, *4848-IV, 4748-I and 4748-II), 3) the Thai/Lao border east of Ubon Ratchathani (1 sheet 6039-II) and 4) The Thai-Lao border near Loei/Nan (1 sheet, *5144-II) The two sheets I have marked * above, strangely, do not follow through to make the covering 250k JOG sheet unavailable. Perhaps the disputed area is too small at 250k scale. An index for all 4 series is at: http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/06/04Download/L7017data_index/index_paper_L7017s.zip It shows in green the sheets of L7017S available to the public, and in red the 7 sheets from all 4 series that are unavailable due to border disputes. The remaining sheets, in white, can only be obtained by Thai officials. If you want to mark in available L7018S sheets, you will need to do this yourself. *************************** Atlas of Thailand sheets The 52 individual sheets from the ATLAS OF THAILAND are also available. Several have been updated in the last 10 years, so the online RTSD catalogue and the samples at the RTSD shop are older editions listed/on display. All have bilingual titles/legends in Thai/English. Sheets come in two sizes: a larger size with a map of Thailand at 1:2,500,000 and a smaller size at 1:4,000,000. Some sheets, mainly the smaller ones, have multiple maps at smaller scales again, and are indicated by (x6) etc after the scale. The sheet list below has been taken from the RTSD website (URL http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/03/3_1/atlas.html and http://www.rtsd.mi.th/service/page/03/3_1/atlas_1.html ) and updated/corrected with regards to date,scale, etc for most sheets. Those sheets marked * indicate I have not updated/corrected the information, so date and scale may be wrong. Where two page numbers are given, the map is the second o these. I presume the first of these pairings is text, but am not sure. Sheets should be ordered by page number not ordinal number! Atlas of Thailand sheets available. Cost 60THB each. ordinal number/title/atlas page number/scale *1. THAILAND'S ENVIRONMENTAL LOCATION 1 1:50,000,000 2. RELIEF 2-3 1:2,500,000 *3. SURVEYING AND MAPPING 4 1:4,000,000 *4. TECTONIC STRUCTURE 5 1:5,000,000 5. GEOLOGY 6-7 1:2,500,000 *6. GEOLOGIC CROSS SECTION 8 1: 1,000,000 1:100,000 7. GEOMORPHOLOGY 9 1:2,500,000 8. GENERAL SOIL 1993 10-11 1:2,500,000 9. LAND CAPABILITY 12 1:4,000,000 *10. SEASONAL STORM TRACKS 1961-70 13 1:15,000,000 11. MEAN MIN & MAX TEMPERATURES 1951-70 14 1:10,000,000 (x6) 12. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 1951-80 14 1 1:15,000,000 (x12) 13. MEAN EVAPORATION & RELATIVE HUMIDITY 1951-71 15 1:10,000,000 (x6) 14. MEAN ANNUAL RAINFALL 1951-70 16 1:4,000,000 15. MEAN MONTHLY RAINFALL 1951-70 17 1:15,000,000 (x12) 16. CLIMATIC REGIONS OF THAILAND 18 1:4,000,000 17. VEGETATION 1977 19 1:4,000,000 18. HYDROGRAPHY 1998 20 1:4,000,000 19. DAILY DISCHARGE OF THE MAJOR RIVERS 1965-70 21 (diagram, so no scale) *20. GULF OF THE THAILAND TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, FISH 22 1:??? 21. ETHNOLINGUISTIC GROUPS 23 1:5,000,000 22. POPULATION 1970 24-25 1:2,500,000 *23. MEAN ANNUAL POPULATION VARIATION 1980-90 26 1:5,000,000 *24. MIGRATION 1965-70 27 1:4,000,000 *25. EDUCATIONAL PROVISION 1991 28 1:4,000,000 *26. MEDICAL PROVISION 29 1:4,000,000 *27. ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION IN AGRICULTURE FORESTRY MINING 1980 30 1:4,000,000 *28. ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION IN MANUFACTURING CONSTRUCTION 1980 31 1:4,000,000 *29. ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION IN COMMERCE TRANSPORTATION SERVICE 1980 32 1:4,000,000 *30. LAND TENURE 1973 33 1:4,000,000 31. MAJOR LAND USES 1998 34-35 1:2,500,000 *32. LAND USE CASE STUDIES 36 1:15,000 [different regional field patterns] 33. AGRICULTURE I 1980-81 37 c.1:7,500,000 (x4) [farm holdings, rice, maize, mungbeans] 34. IRRIGATION 1990 38-39 1: 2,500,000 35. AGRICULTURE II 1980-81 40 c.1: 7,500,000 (x4) [cassava, ground nuts, sugar cane, rubber] 36. LIVESTOCK 1990 41 1:2,500,000 [cattle, buffalo, pigs, chickens, ducks numbers by province and density per 1000 people] 37. FISHERY 1997 42 1:2,500,000 38. FORESTRY 1998 43 1:2,500,000 39. MINERAL RESOURCES 1992 44 1:2,500,000 40. INDUSTRY 1976 45 1:4,000,000 *41. INDUSTRY CENTER BANGKOK 1973 46 1:??? 42. ELECTRIC ENERGY 2001 47 1:2,500,000 43. CENTRAL PLACES 1992 48 1:2,500,000 [ie courts, telephone lines, universities] 44. RAIL AND ROAD TRAFFIC 1972/74 49 1:4,000,000 45. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES 2000 50-51 1:2,500,000 *46. AIRWAYS CENTER BANGKOK 52 1:??? *47. THAILAND'S EXTERNAL TRADE 53 1:100,000,000 *48. TOURIST MAP OF THAILAND 54-55 1:2,500,000 *49. TOURIST CENTERS 56 1:7,500 ; 1:5,000 ; 1:75,000 50. OLD ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES [from a Thai postal map 1915. Includes former international boundaries 1890s-1909] 57 1:4,000,000 *51. ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS 1990 58-59 1:2,500,000 *52. SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION 60 1:5,000,000 ****************************** Other Series Apart from world and regional maps, other series sold by the RTSD are - L8019 1:25,000, 344 sheets available to official Thai users only for 50THB each - L9013 1:12,500 city plans. 150 cities available, but only to official users for 70THB each. Many of these update earlier US Army city plans from the 1960s. - L9013S 1:20,000. 20 sheet topographic map of Bangkok. Available to public at 80THB/sheet, but in Thai only, and 10 years out of date (the new airport isn't marked!) - [unnumbered series] a single 1:50,000 sheet covering Greater Bangkok metropolitan area. THB90. Avaiilable to the public, but in Thai only. Brendan Whyte Thailand _________________________________________________________________ Dont miss your chance to WIN 10 hours of private jet travel from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0540002499mrt/direct/01/