Justice and legal access

OpenStreetMap Thailand legal offices.

Crowdsourced enrichment for courts, police stations, government offices, prison/correctional places, office=lawyer, office=notary, names, addresses, coordinates, opening_hours, contact tags, and nearby access.

Public OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts Free open data under ODbL attribution/share-alike terms Weekly for national index; daily or weekly for high-use areas Open source
Runtime role

Catalog only

Access class

Public

Access type

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts

Free status

Free open data under ODbL attribution/share-alike terms

Cadence

Weekly for national index; daily or weekly for high-use areas

Last verified

2026-05-11

Access class note

Public web, file, catalog, or documented endpoint access with no paid gate implied in the source profile.

Used in layers

page reference only

Useful fields

office name, Thai/English name, office type, parent agency, address, province/district/subdistrict, coordinates, phone, email, website, hotline, function, service category, who can use, eligibility, required documents, fee, processing time, office hours, service hours, jurisdiction, source ID

Reliability rating

Medium-high for discovery and context; operational reliability depends on endpoint stability.

Runtime truth

Runtime role

Catalog only

Production ready

Not yet

Entity scope

No runtime entity scope yet.

Observation scope

No live observation ingestion yet.

Decision scope

Not wired into active decisions yet.

Runtime note

Profiled in the atlas and public pages, but not yet connected to live graph computation.

How this helps travel recommendations

Turns legal access into a practical public-service map: where to go, which office has authority, who can use the service, what to bring, when it is open, and what online or emergency alternative exists.

Endpoint and API notes

Crowdsourced enrichment for courts, police stations, government offices, prison/correctional places, office=lawyer, office=notary, names, addresses, coordinates, opening_hours, contact tags, and nearby access.

Open the source endpoint or documentation. Return to the Thailand data atlas.

Developer reference

Best endpoint

Use official office-location datasets for the location spine, Info.go for function/eligibility/documents/fees/hours/process, agency pages for contact and jurisdiction, and OSM/DBD only as enrichment for coordinates or private-law-office discovery.

Recommended refresh

Refresh daily, or more often only when the source publishes explicit current-status fields.

Travel scoring role

Turns legal access into a practical public-service map: where to go, which office has authority, who can use the service, what to bring, when it is open, and what online or emergency alternative exists.

Comparable / backup source

COJ, Administrative Court, Office of the Attorney General, Royal Thai Police, Ministry of Justice, Info.go, RLPD, Legal Execution Department, Department of Lands, DOPA, Corrections, DJOP, Probation, CIFS, Lawyers Council, OSM, and Open DBD legal-service company records.

Example request

# Verify the documented legal endpoint before production use.
curl -L "https://overpass-turbo.eu/" -H "Accept: application/json"

Failure modes

  • There is no single all-legal-offices API.
  • Working hours are not the same as service hours or filing cutoffs.
  • Public legal offices and private law firms must be stored separately.
  • Restricted DOPA, DOL, court-case, and personal justice APIs must not be treated as open public feeds.
  • Company registration does not prove a licensed lawyer is present.
  • Jurisdiction can depend on case type, province, district, property location, or court order.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: Treat this profile as strongest for the exact role named above. It is weaker when the source is stretched into live availability, legal proof, or traveler-fit decisions it does not directly prove.