I use a garmin street something or other and got a link to a V9 map about thee weeks ago if any body is interested in it let me know if you want the file it works for me and the advantage over the V8 is the extra detail in the counrtyside i have not tried it in Bangkok as yet but certainly in Petch area there is a lot more detail and it still fits on the memory card that fits into the side of the Garmin unit

I could do with that ,can you send me the link

I'd love that link!

me too please

Thats it guys the link has gone now sorry if you missed it

Go to btjunkie.com or mininova.com and search for garmin maps Thailand.

I downloaded it and all is good, and it's free.

Cheers for the link saves me a job next time

I have Garmin SE Asia ver 3.0, how does Thailand ver 9 differ?

I asked Garmin to check to see if the Kanchanaphisek bridge was on their latest map. Here is their answer;

"Thank you for contacting Garmin International. If you have a 2008 or 2009 version, those would be up to date. The bridge may not be on there because it is a new location. Sometimes it may take a few years to get that information onto maps".

Obviously I am not impressed that it takes SEVERAL years to add a major item such as a bridge and the highways connecting to it.

this map is specific to Thailand no other copuntry details are given and over V8 there is a lot more detail and some of the turn offs are now corrected like turning from #1 road to the ring road going South it tells you to turn on to the slip frontage road instead for tleaving it and telling you to turn right (I mean left no wonder I need SatNav) off the #1 as you go past the turning

This post has been edited by mgc: 2009-07-03 10:44:18

OK, thanks for that. I suppose that SE Asia V 3.0 is using Thailand V 8.0 data then. I guess what I could do is get Thailand V 9.0 and use that locally and then when I go to Malaysia pop the SE Asia card in for that trip.

matter of interest I went to buy another 128mb SD card yesterday and could I finds one - could I hel_l as like the smallest one now is 1gb but still the price didnt break the bank at 190thb probably cheaper if you look around i was at Tesco

For what it's worth, both Garmin City Navigator SE Asia NT v4.00 and ESRI Thailand Street Map v9.0 NT have the Kanchanaphisek bridge (N13 38.005, E100 32.337), Rotweiler All Thailand v5.2 does not. A major omission on Rotweiler's part. Garmin City Navigator SE Asia has the best rural road detail, if your into dirt roads and 4-wheel drive/motorcycles. Rotweiler All Thailand will work with MapSource on your computer, the ESRI and Garmin Thailand maps don't seem to want to work with MapSource. All three maps provide enough POI to keep you properly sheltered, fed, entertained, and lubricated.

A few posts on this thread show that people haven't read adjacent threads about the different maps. The Garmin SE Asia NT map uses TeleAtlas (MapPointAsia) maps not ESRI (so it isn't v.8). I concur that the rural road data is better on TeleAtlas than ESRI v.9, having recently compared the two on my NUVI. However, on my 2008 SE Asia NT map (don't have the version number to hand) I could find no bridge. Will double-check but the Nuvi 250 is clumsy when it comes to simulating routes.

Does anyone have the map ID number?

If you mean the TeleAtlas map it is as follows. On the box: CN Southeastern Asia NT 2008, bar code 010-11114-00

From Nuvi: City Navigator Southeastern Asia v2.0 NT, CN_SEA_NT_TA200709

Now that I have seen this, it looks like the map sold in the US as 2008 is a fairly early 2007 map. The rural detail is quite good, but the bridge mentioned in the thread is definitely not present. I don't know when versions 3 and 4 mentioned in the thread were released.

This post has been edited by citizen33: 2009-07-05 20:31:58

CN Southeastern Asia NT 2008, bar code 010-11114-00 is useing ESRI V8.1 mapset.

S.e.a. version 2 =335
S.e.a. version 3 =363

There is no version 4 yet.

This seems implausible to me. The one I have with that bar code has a sticker saying TeleAtlas on the box and having compared this map with ESRI v.9 they are very different, with more rural detail on the SE Asia map. In the map version displayed on my NUVI and mentioned above I would assume that 'TA' in TA200709 means TeleAtlas. Are you suggesting that TeleAtlas used the ESRI mapset?

This post has been edited by citizen33: 2009-07-06 00:19:47

In 2008 they did! Then ESRI got the boot from Garmin and TeleAtlas,
Then we all seen the price tumble, 11000m 7000, now just 4500.

Thanks Basjke, those are the numbers I'm referring to, but was looking for the ID number for Thailand Ver 9

Just open the map and the FID # and PID # are there

Esri map is id 57

Thanks basjke, I am surprised it is only 2 digits though, but will give it a try.

This post has been edited by CDNinKS: 2009-07-06 10:51:35

Garmin City Navigator SE Asia NT v4.00 is marked as TA200810, is definitely not a ESRI Thailand Street Map v9.0 NT map set.