Beddhist
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Hi all,
When I spent a year living and touring Thailand I found it difficult to impossible to get good road maps. The exceptions were David's GT-Rider maps which cover only a small part of the North. I also had 2 Berndtson maps, one of N Thailand (scale 1:750000) and one of all of Thailand, twice the scale. Neither of them have enough detail to navigate on the smaller roads.
Gecko maps were recommended to me, but I could not find them, nor any other detailed maps in Chiang Mai's book shops.
Now that sufficient data and tools are available I am considering printing my own maps, which I then want to offer for sale in small quantities.
My questions to you: what would you want from a useful road map? What scale should it be and how big? Synthetic paper exists now, so I hope to make them waterproof and tear resistant.
I'm looking forward to your opinions.
Kind regards,
Peter.
When I spent a year living and touring Thailand I found it difficult to impossible to get good road maps. The exceptions were David's GT-Rider maps which cover only a small part of the North. I also had 2 Berndtson maps, one of N Thailand (scale 1:750000) and one of all of Thailand, twice the scale. Neither of them have enough detail to navigate on the smaller roads.
Gecko maps were recommended to me, but I could not find them, nor any other detailed maps in Chiang Mai's book shops.
Now that sufficient data and tools are available I am considering printing my own maps, which I then want to offer for sale in small quantities.
My questions to you: what would you want from a useful road map? What scale should it be and how big? Synthetic paper exists now, so I hope to make them waterproof and tear resistant.
I'm looking forward to your opinions.
Kind regards,
Peter.