Data cluster

Thailand Geospatial Data.

Boundaries, OSM, satellite, protected areas, population grids, and map layers for place intelligence.

75 sources Updated 2026-05-11 Download JSON

Best use for travel intelligence

For travel decisions, geospatial data helps explain why nearby pivots are actually nearby, where coast/weather exposure differs, and what infrastructure surrounds a place.

What this changes for travelers

  • OpenStreetMap: Roads, neighborhoods, POIs, and map context.
  • GISTDA: Satellite and disaster geography for hazards and coast/rain exposure.
  • HDX / WorldPop: Boundary and population context for regional comparison.
  • Protected Planet: Protected areas and nature-travel context.

Best sources to start with

  • Best map baseline: OpenStreetMap / Geofabrik Thailand extracts for roads, POIs, buildings, and local geography.
  • Best official geospatial source: GISTDA for satellite, disaster, and national geospatial layers.
  • Best boundaries/population backup: HDX, WorldPop, Protected Planet, and Open Development Thailand for boundaries, population, and protected areas.
  • Best developer starting point: Normalize geometry, projection, simplification level, feature type, and update date before merging layers.
Official / agency sources

27 of 75 sources look official or agency-backed.

API/feed candidates

53 sources expose API, feed, CKAN/DataStore, JSON, XML, or similar machine-readable access.

Near-real-time signals

14 sources have live, hourly, event-driven, warning, or frequent update language.

Developer note

Normalize coordinate systems, geometry type, simplification level, and update date before combining maps or boundaries.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: This cluster is strongest when several sources describe the same traveler problem from different angles: official context, machine-readable feeds, and slower fallback documentation.

Catalogs and discovery

Government Data Catalog

Cross-agency discovery surface for statistical, record, API, and geospatial datasets.

Catalog/API
Catalogs and discovery

Open Government Data of Thailand

Primary national open-data portal and first crawl target.

CKAN/API, CSV, XLS, JSON, geospatial files
Energy and agriculture

PEA and MEA power outage announcements

Utility-risk context for Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, and provincial destinations when planned maintenance outages are announced. Treat as announcement support only; do not imply live grid status, restoration ETA, customer account status, or outage-map completeness.

Official public planned-outage announcement pages and utility app/website notices; no clean national bulk outage API verified
Fuel, gas stations, and energy prices

Fuel Now DOEB station fuel availability

Department of Energy Business fuel-availability map for station status such as normal, out of stock, and unspecified, with filters by location, brand, radius, and fuel type. It is availability/status data, not a price feed.

Official public web app/dashboard; no clean documented public bulk API verified
Fuel, gas stations, and energy prices

OpenStreetMap Thailand fuel station POIs

Crowdsourced station geography for amenity=fuel, brand, operator, opening_hours, fuel:diesel, fuel:lpg, fuel:cng, fuel:e20/e85, payment, toilets, convenience shop, phone, website, and station polygons. Coverage is uneven and prices are not reliable.

OSM/Overpass API and extracts using amenity=fuel and fuel:* tags
Geospatial and satellite

Copernicus Marine ocean color

Global and coastal ocean-colour products useful for turbidity, suspended matter, and chlorophyll proxies around Thailand. Satellite proxies support water-quality interpretation but do not prove microbiological safety.

Product documentation and data portal for high-resolution ocean-colour products such as chlorophyll, turbidity, and suspended matter
Geospatial and satellite

DNP wildfire data

Department of National Parks wildfire and hotspot geospatial layer with fire-related overlays and protected-area wildfire context. Useful for smoke, forest-fire, and conservation-area safety overlays.

Public geospatial dashboard and hotspot layers
Geospatial and satellite

Geofabrik Thailand OSM Extract

OpenStreetMap extract for Thailand.

PBF/SHP
Geospatial and satellite

GISTDA ocean color

Satellite proxy layer for chlorophyll-a, sea-surface temperature, and marine-condition monitoring. Useful for bloom, sediment, and coastal-condition context, but not a substitute for bacteria sampling.

Marine GI portal, daily service pages, maps, and satellite-derived marine analysis products
Geospatial and satellite

GISTDA Open Data

Thailand geospatial and satellite data catalog.

Catalog, API, WMS, satellite/geospatial files
Geospatial and satellite

Google Earth Engine public catalog

Satellite and geoscience datasets filterable to Thailand.

Earth Engine API
Geospatial and satellite

Land Development Department soil layers

Soil series and land-resource maps.

SHP/downloads/catalog where open
Geospatial and satellite

National Spatial Data Infrastructure / Thai SDI

National spatial-data infrastructure and OGC geospatial services.

OGC services such as WMS/WFS/WCS/WPS
Geospatial and satellite

NSO GIS

Statistical geospatial layers and visualizations.

GeoJSON/CSV/dashboard
Geospatial and satellite

ONEP GIS / environmental layers

Environmental layers including conservation sites, waterbirds, urban green space, watershed quality, and related datasets.

WMS/downloads where open
Geospatial and satellite

Open Development Thailand / Mekong

Boundaries, protected areas, laws, environment, and regional open-data mirrors.

SHP, GeoJSON, PDF, downloads
Geospatial and satellite

OpenStreetMap Thailand

Roads, buildings, POIs, land use, and map features.

OSM API/bulk via mirrors
Geospatial and satellite

OSM noise barriers

Geospatial noise-mitigation and modeling layer for wall=noise_barrier and related barrier geometry near roads, rail lines, airports, and settlements.

OpenStreetMap Overpass API and ODbL geospatial data
Geospatial and satellite

OSM noise monitoring stations

Geospatial enrichment for man_made=monitoring_station with monitoring:noise tagging, useful for mapping public or private noise-monitoring locations and nearby source context.

OpenStreetMap Overpass API and ODbL geospatial data
Geospatial and satellite

OSM Thailand emergency POI

Crowdsourced geospatial enrichment for police stations, fire stations, ambulance stations, rescue stations, AEDs, and other emergency-related POIs. Useful for map context, not official operational status.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Geospatial and satellite

Protected Planet / WDPA Thailand

Canonical global protected-area and OECM data filterable to Thailand.

CSV/SHP/downloads
Geospatial and satellite

Royal Forest Department Data Catalog

Forest-related datasets.

CKAN/API where enabled
Humanitarian and international baselines

HDX Thailand

Humanitarian, boundary, crisis-response, population, and aid datasets.

API, CSV, GeoJSON, SHP
Humanitarian and international baselines

WorldPop Thailand

High-resolution population grids and density data for Thailand.

STAC/GeoTIFF/downloads
Justice and legal access

DOPA government-place and district-office datasets

District-office and government-place geospatial/admin datasets useful for civil-registration access, ID/house-registration/marriage-divorce services, and official province/district/subdistrict reconciliation.

Government catalog, JSON/XLS/geospatial resources where exposed
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.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Law, politics, and civic

BMA fire station data

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration fire-station and substation location dataset for Bangkok fire and rescue access context. Useful for station master, district coverage, and city emergency-access mapping, not live dispatch or readiness.

Bangkok open-data dataset with CSV resource, map view, and table view
Museums and learning sites

Department of Mineral Resources museum locations

Geological, mineral, and paleontology museum location/detail data under the Department of Mineral Resources, including geospatial coordinates and visitor-count resources where exposed.

DMR catalog resources, CSV, ArcGIS REST service/API, data dictionary where exposed
Museums and learning sites

OpenStreetMap Thailand museum POIs

Free geospatial enrichment for tourism=museum, museum=*, tourism=gallery, historic=*, building=museum, names, operator, opening_hours, fee, website, contact tags, wheelchair access, Wikidata/Wikipedia links, points, and polygons.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Precious metals, gems, and jewelry

Chanthaburi gem market public tourism and map sources

Physical gem-market context for Chanthaburi, including market location, operating-day context, trader/stone-market descriptions, nearby streets, OSM/POI enrichment, and visitor caveats.

TAT/local tourism pages, OSM, and public market descriptions
Precious metals, gems, and jewelry

DMR mineral potential and geology datasets

Department of Mineral Resources mineral-potential areas, geology, mineral maps, and geospatial layers for mining/mineral-resource context. Useful for gemstone and precious-metal resource geography, not retail pricing.

Government Data Catalog metadata, ArcGIS REST services, GIS layers, HTML/CSV where exposed
Precious metals, gems, and jewelry

OpenStreetMap Thailand gold, gem, and jewelry POIs

Crowdsourced geospatial enrichment for shop=jewelry, shop=gold_buyer, craft=jeweller, craft=lapidary, gem markets, opening_hours, websites, phone, addresses, and map geometry.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Religion, culture, and heritage

DOPA religious and important-place geospatial datasets

Administrative and important-place datasets useful for province/district/subdistrict reconciliation, official place names, LAT/LONG, and ancient/religious-place context.

JSON/XLS/geospatial resources where exposed through government catalogs
Religion, culture, and heritage

ONAB temple histories and abandoned temple datasets

Temple history corpus, abandoned temples, central religious property, geospatial religious-property records, meditation centers, and legal/procedure documents. Slow-changing but valuable for history and active/abandoned distinction.

Catalog resources, XLSX/DOCX/PDF/CSV where exposed
Religion, culture, and heritage

OpenStreetMap Thailand temple POIs

Geospatial enrichment for amenity=place_of_worship, religion=buddhist, building=temple, historic=ruins, tourism=attraction, names, aliases, opening_hours, website, accessibility, polygons, and nearby access.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Restaurants, nightlife, and wellness

Google Places Thailand restaurants

Commercial restaurant and cafe POI enrichment for venue names, place IDs, addresses, hours, ratings, reviews, photos, phone, website, and business status. Useful for named-venue discovery and map confidence, not an official Thai food or licensing registry.

Google Places APIs for restaurant place search, place details, photos, reviews, ratings, and selected business attributes
Restaurants, nightlife, and wellness

OpenStreetMap Thailand nightlife venues

Best free nightlife geometry and nearby fallback layer for bars, pubs, clubs, and music venues. Coverage varies sharply by city and district and is not a trust, safety, or quality guarantee.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=bar, amenity=pub, amenity=nightclub, amenity=music_venue, opening_hours, and contact tags where mapped
Restaurants, nightlife, and wellness

OpenStreetMap Thailand restaurants and cafes

Best free map spine for restaurant and cafe geometry, names, categories, cuisine tags, opening_hours, and nearby fallback logic. Coverage is uneven and it does not prove food quality, licensing, or current kitchen output.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=restaurant, amenity=cafe, amenity=food_court, amenity=fast_food, cuisine, opening_hours, and contact tags
Restaurants, nightlife, and wellness

OpenStreetMap Thailand spas and massage

Best free spa and massage map spine for venue geometry, names, opening hours, and nearby fallback options. Coverage and tagging depth vary and should not be treated as treatment-quality proof.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using shop=massage, leisure=spa, beauty=spa, opening_hours, and contact tags where mapped
Statistics, economy, and finance

BOT auto leasing and hire-purchase supervision

Bank of Thailand supervision context for hire purchase and leasing of cars and motorcycles, especially the boundary between short-term rental and regulated financial leasing or hire-purchase businesses. Use to keep daily rental separate from long-term finance products.

Official public supervision page, press releases, public-hearing documents, and regulatory guidance
Stores, retail, and shopping

7-Eleven Thailand store locator

Key chain layer for Thailand convenience stores. Use as branch truth for 7-Eleven where accessible, but keep separate from CP ALL legal entity records, OSM/Google POIs, and inventory/product availability.

Public chain store locator/web surfaces; no documented bulk public API verified
Stores, retail, and shopping

Bank of Thailand Retail Sales Index

Macro retail-demand context across categories such as food stores, pharmacies/cosmetics, stalls/markets, department stores, supermarkets, general stores, and internet/mail-order retail. Not a store POI or price feed.

BOT statistical releases and metadata for retail sales index categories based on Revenue Department data
Stores, retail, and shopping

Boots Thailand store locator

Health and beauty/pharmacy chain layer. Pair with Thai FDA drug-place licenses and Google/OSM for pharmacy status, hours, and POI enrichment.

Boots Thailand public store locator or branch pages; mall pages may expose branch address and opening hours
Stores, retail, and shopping

HomePro branch locator

Home improvement and household-retail branch truth. Useful for hours and maps, but inventory/service appointment availability needs retailer APIs or direct integration.

Official HomePro public branch locator and branch pages with address, phone, map, and office hours where exposed
Stores, retail, and shopping

Longdo Place API Thailand stores

Thailand-local POI/search layer useful for Thai names, address normalization, phone, website, place type, reverse geocoding, and place search. Use as licensed POI enrichment alongside OSM, Google, NOSTRA, and brand locators.

Longdo Place API for reverse geocoding, search/suggest place, smart search, place details, Thai-local addresses, phone, website, and category data
Stores, retail, and shopping

NOSTRA Map API Thailand retail POIs

Commercial Thai geospatial/POI enrichment source for store and retail places, coordinates, nearby search, category filtering, routing context, and map-quality validation.

NOSTRA Map developer platform APIs for basemap, web service APIs, POI search, geocoding, routing, and Thai location services
Stores, retail, and shopping

OpenStreetMap Thailand shop POIs

Best free geospatial store spine. Useful for shop categories, coordinates, polygons, opening_hours, brand, operator, contact tags, wheelchair/accessibility, payment hints, markets, and pharmacies. Coverage is incomplete and it is not legal/tax/license proof.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using shop=*, amenity=marketplace, amenity=pharmacy, brand, operator, opening_hours, address, contact, and payment tags
Stores, retail, and shopping

Thong Fah Pracharat store data

Important layer for welfare-card and low-price community stores. The app describes nearby search, store name search, location, owner/shop name, address, phone, and map navigation, while many public datasets expose only counts.

DIT Thong Fah Pracharat app surfaces and provincial/GDC datasets for welfare-card/community store counts or store search details where exposed
Stores, retail, and shopping

Watsons Thailand store locator

Health and beauty chain branch layer. Pair with FDA license data where a branch is a licensed pharmacy and with Google/OSM/Longdo for POI enrichment.

Watsons Thailand public store pages/search with store address and opening hours where exposed
Tourism and travel

Google Places hotels

Commercial accommodation POI enrichment for hotel names, place IDs, addresses, maps, ratings, reviews, photos, phone, website, and open-status context where available. Useful for public-facing hotel discovery, not Thai legal hotel registration or live room inventory.

Google Places APIs for place search, place details, photos, reviews, ratings, and selected accommodation attributes
Tourism and travel

OSM Thailand accommodation

Free accommodation map spine for tourism=hotel, tourism=guest_house, tourism=hostel, tourism=resort, tourism=apartment, tourism=camp_site, villas, and related lodging POIs. Good for coordinates, names, and map context, not official licensing or live rates.

OpenStreetMap Overpass API and ODbL geospatial data
Transport

BTS SkyTrain system maps and service pages

Bangkok Mass Transit System public route maps, fares, interchange guidance, first/last train context, and station/service pages. Useful for public rail-wayfinding and base-choice logic, but no clean public bulk rail API was verified.

Official public route-map, station, fare, and service-information pages
Transport

DOH Highway Traffic

Department of Highways traffic surface for CCTV, travel-time, congestion-color, speed-flow, and roadside-facility context. Useful for road-friction and route-risk support, but do not imply a clean public nationwide machine-readable realtime API until a stable endpoint is verified.

Official public traffic web surface, CCTV pages, travel-time context, and map overlays
Transport

EXAT Data Catalog

Expressway Authority of Thailand catalog layer for expressway network, toll plazas, accident statistics, traffic volumes, breakdown or service-point context, and related transport metadata. Treat as official catalog and route-friction evidence unless a stable realtime public feed is verified.

Catalog resources, CSV, XLS, geospatial files, and linked agency datasets where exposed
Transport

EXAT Traffic Surface

Expressway Authority traffic and CCTV surface for Bangkok expressway congestion, incidents, toll-road context, and service-point support. Treat as public traffic evidence and health-check surface until a stable public endpoint is documented.

Official public app and map surface; machine-readable endpoints not yet verified
Transport

Google Places Thailand taxi POIs

Commercial POI layer for taxi stands, operator offices, airport pickup points, opening hours, contact data, reviews, and map links. It is not a legal registry or ride-dispatch feed.

Places API search, nearby search, place details, and place types such as taxi_stand with commercial terms
Transport

Longdo Place API Thailand taxi POIs

Thailand-local POI/search layer useful for taxi stands, operator offices, Thai-language place names, address normalization, and nearby search. Use as licensed enrichment alongside OSM, Google, and airport/operator pages.

Longdo Place API for Thai-local place search, details, reverse geocoding, phone, website, and category data
Transport

Longdo Place API Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Thailand-local POI and search layer useful for rental offices, Thai-language branch names, airport vicinity search, and address normalization. Use as licensed enrichment alongside OSM, Google, and airport/operator pages.

Longdo Place API and related map/place search services for Thai-local search, details, reverse geocoding, phone, website, and category data
Transport

Ministry of Transport Data Catalog

High-value catalog for roads, rail, public transport, and transport geodata.

API, CSV, XLS, SHP, WMS, WFS
Transport

MRT / MRTA metro maps and service pages

Mass Rapid Transit Authority public route maps, station listings, interchange notes, and service context for MRT lines in Bangkok and nearby provinces. Useful for public rail planning and station-level accommodation access, not a verified public bulk realtime feed.

Official public MRT route, station, and service-information pages
Transport

Namtang stops, stations, piers, and park-and-ride downloads

Static stop, station, pier, connected-mode, and park-and-ride context; pair with GTFS stops and OSM for station pages.

Compressed text downloads and GTFS-related static data
Transport

NOSTRA Map API Thailand taxi POIs

Commercial Thai location platform for taxi stands, operator offices, airport pickup points, routing, and nearby place enrichment. Treat as licensed POI and routing enrichment, not a legal taxi or dispatch API.

NOSTRA Map developer platform APIs for POI search, geocoding, routing, and Thai location services
Transport

NOSTRA Map API Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Commercial Thai location platform for rental branches, airport counters, routing, and nearby place enrichment. Treat as licensed POI enrichment, not a legal company or live inventory feed.

NOSTRA Map developer platform APIs for POI search, geocoding, routing, and Thai location services
Transport

OpenStreetMap Thailand bus stops and route relations

Crowdsourced highway=bus_stop, amenity=bus_station, public_transport platforms/stations, route=bus relations, route_master=bus, operator, network, ref, and stop facility hints.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Transport

OpenStreetMap Thailand taxi stands

Best free geospatial layer for taxi ranks, pickup points, and some motorcycle-taxi stands where tagged. Coverage is incomplete and informal stands often need manual validation.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=taxi, opening_hours, name, operator, and vehicle tags
Transport

OpenStreetMap Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Best free geospatial layer for car-rental offices, motorcycle-rental shops, mixed rental stores, names, operator tags, opening_hours, contact data, and address enrichment. Coverage is incomplete and needs validation.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=car_rental, amenity=motorcycle_rental, bicycle_rental, and shop=rental tags
Transport

OSM Thailand piers

Free pier and ferry map layer for amenity=ferry_terminal, man_made=pier, route=ferry, landings, and nearby boat-access context. Useful for coordinates, nearby transfers, and fallback mapping, not official route confirmation.

OpenStreetMap Overpass API and ODbL geospatial data
Transport

OTP top taxi pickup and dropoff areas

Top pickup and dropoff area analytics from taxi GPS data with weekday/weekend splits and area labels such as subdistrict, district, and province. Useful for demand heatmaps and taxi-area ranking, not live dispatch.

MOT/OTP catalog resources in CSV/XLSX/PDF and API-backed catalog metadata where exposed
Water and hydrology

MRC Mekong water quality

Best transboundary Mekong water-quality context for monthly monitoring, nutrients, solids, oxygen, and incident follow-up. Keep basin-scale monitoring separate from local Thai drinking-water claims.

Official monitoring programme pages, reports, and linked data or download surfaces
Water and hydrology

Provincial Waterworks water quality

Provincial tap-water and raw-water monitoring layer outside the MWA service area. Treat it as public dashboard truth unless a documented bulk API is granted.

Public Water Quality Map and Water Monitor Station dashboards linked from the PWA site map
Weather, environment, and disasters

ASMC regional haze and hotspot portal

Regional haze and hotspot context for burning-season pages, cross-border smoke interpretation, satellite fire detections, rainfall, wind, and haze-map overlays. Hotspots are possible active fires and can be missed or falsely detected; use as regional context, not station-level PM2.5 proof.

Public ASEAN haze GIS portal, hotspot information pages, satellite overlays, haze maps, and WIS 2.0 pilot catalog context
Weather, environment, and disasters

GISTDA disaster fire

GISTDA fire and disaster platform for hotspot, fire, burned-area, and related geospatial context. Useful for wildfire and public-safety risk overlays, not for live fire-engine dispatch.

Public disaster platform dashboard and geospatial fire layers
Weather, environment, and disasters

GISTDA Disaster Platform

Flood, fire, drought, PM2.5, rainfall forecasts, flood imagery, and disaster geospatial layers.

API, WMS, geospatial layers
Weather, environment, and disasters

NASA FIRMS

MODIS/VIIRS fire and thermal anomaly data filterable to Thailand.

API, CSV, WMS
Weather, environment, and disasters

USGS Earthquake API

Earthquake events filterable by Thailand bounding box.

GeoJSON/API