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[MaewNam]

I am privately working on researching the administrative subdivisions of Thailand, and one thing I am doing is to collect the locations of the offices for several of the administrative entities. Yesterday I published a blog post about this collection, and today I discover it has a sub-forum here which fits the topic...

Since I am not based in Thailand and can only come there for vacations, there are only few offices where I myself could fix the location. For the district, I have a KML I downloaded years ago and fine-tuned the locations right onto the district office building where possible. Also, the province halls (Sala Klang) are usually easy to find in Google Earth. But especially the local government units - municipalities (Thesaban), subdistrict administrative organizations (TAO) or the provincial administrative organizations (PAO) it's very difficult to find locations for their offices, there's no comprehensive map with all of them, and even those I can find on maps sometimes seem to point onto an empty field in Google Earth. And if these entities have websites, these rarely include maps, and usually only sketch maps which make it impossible to find in the satellite imaginary.

Right now I have just about 900 placemarks I am fairly certain about, but there are about 10,000 entities (mostly TAO) which could be included. And if I would add the Muban (which however have no permanent office, only the homeoffice of the Phu Yai Ban) it will get incredible... So I do need a lot of help from locals who can check those locations I have already or even better add more. But you could also just play around with the KML I created.

[falkenbach]

What is the purpose of the project?
Are you looking for volunteers or freelancers to help?! ;-)
I have experience with web GIS and GPS, as I worked over 3 years as web GIS developer at SatSafe.se