Location evidence for Thailand commercial property agencies

Prepare sourced location briefs for warehouse, industrial and commercial listings using places, administrative references and historical flood observations.

How can an agency substantiate a commercial property's location brief?

Attach dated, sourced geographic context to your own listing: reference district, nearby mapped places and available flood observations. Keep advertised distances and access claims independently verified so a buyer can distinguish evidence from sales copy.

Review workflow

  1. Start from the agency's verified listing coordinates and property documents; resolve any ambiguous address before publication.
  2. Add reference districts and nearby mapped places, checking names, coordinates and completeness against the site visit.
  3. Record the observation period of any historical flood extent and separate district terrain from surveyed parcel height.
  4. Publish a buyer brief with source links, remaining survey questions and the agency's verification date; avoid calling an unobserved site flood-free.

What to produce

A sourced location brief for a commercial listing with verified facts, reference context and unresolved buyer questions.

Available evidence and its limits
DatasetCoverage and cadenceSources and licencesLimitations
Place search

Stable

Thailand

Versioned releases; no fixed public cadence

Historical or versioned data; no real-time freshness claim

© OpenStreetMap contributors
ODbL 1.0

Places derive from OpenStreetMap and vary in completeness by area. Treat names as display data and join on stable ids.
Administrative boundaries

Stable

Thailand

Versioned reference release

Historical or versioned data; no real-time freshness claim

Boundaries: RTSD / UN OCHA COD-AB
CC BY 3.0 IGO

Boundaries are the COD-AB reference set for Thailand. They are a cartographic aid, not a legal or cadastral boundary.
Flood history

Beta

Published UNOSAT observation extents in Thailand

Fixed historical archive

Historical or versioned data; no real-time freshness claim

UNOSAT / United Nations Satellite Centre (Thailand flood extents)
CC BY-SA (UNOSAT; verified in HDX catalog)

A fixed archive of historical satellite flood-extent observations (UNOSAT). It is not a real-time flood map, and absence of an extent is not evidence that an area stayed dry.
Terrain

Beta

Thailand district summaries

Static historical elevation model

Historical or versioned data; no real-time freshness claim

Copernicus DEM GLO-30 via Mapterhorn
Copernicus WorldDEM-30 Licence (commercial use permitted)

District-level elevation summaries sampled from Copernicus DEM GLO-30. They are regional context, not parcel or building elevation and not a flood-probability model.

Questions this data cannot answer

The catalog does not provide asking rents, transaction prices, vacancy, zoning approval, ownership or government appraisal values. Place proximity alone cannot substantiate truck access or investment returns.

Try a bounded data request

Read-only, no key required, limited to 100 features in the stated viewport. An empty response can indicate missing coverage. Read the response timestamps, sources and status before use.

curl --fail-with-body 'https://api.mapscale.io/v1/public/atlas/layers/terrain?bbox=100.8%2C13%2C101.3%2C13.5&limit=100'

Terrain →

Foundation API documentation →

Relevant geographic context

Inspect source-backed public examples

Use these references to inspect source identity, timestamps and limits. They do not establish coverage for every location in your project.

Prepare a pilot with your team

For a listing pilot, choose properties with verified coordinates and a client question. Agree the evidence fields and agency review required before sharing a brief; retain unsupported access or valuation claims as open questions.

Scope a data pilot with MapScale →

Workflow documentation by MapScale, using the linked dataset contracts for sources and limitations. Report source discrepancies through our contact channel. Your team remains responsible for domain review and approval.