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   "type": "lane",
   "names": {
    "name": "The hom",
    "th": "ฮ่อม",
    "rtgs": "hom",
    "said": "Where most of the city's road-kilometres are, and where almost none of the traffic counts are.",
    "said_th": "ตี้กิโลเมตรถนนส่วนใหญ่ของเมืองอยู่ และตี้แทบบ่มีจุดนับรถ"
   },
   "region": [
    "city"
   ],
   "text": {
    "what": "The lanes between houses: residential streets, living streets and service lanes in OpenStreetMap's terms; hom in Kam Mueang, soi on the postal address. The measurements page counts their length, how many end in a dead end, and how many have a name. The highway department counts none of them, because none of them is a highway.",
    "story": "*Inference —* a hom is a hom because it goes to houses, not through them. The dead-end share on the measurements page is the number to hold onto: inside the moat the grid of 1296 makes almost every lane come out somewhere; in the rings outside, a lane is a driveway shared by twenty families and it ends at the last one."
   },
   "text_th": {
    "what": "ทางระหว่างบ้าน ถนนที่อยู่อาศัย ถนนคนอยู่ และทางบริการในภาษา OpenStreetMap ฮ่อมในกำเมือง ซอยบนที่อยู่ไปรษณีย์ หน้าการวัดนับความยาว นับว่ากี่สายจบด้วยทางตัน และกี่สายมีชื่อ กรมทางหลวงบ่นับสักสาย เพราะบ่มีสายไหนเป็นทางหลวง",
    "story": "*อนุมาน —* ฮ่อมเป็นฮ่อมเพราะมันไปหาบ้าน บ่ใช่ผ่านบ้าน สัดส่วนทางตันบนหน้าการวัดคือตัวเลขที่ควรจำ ในเวียง ตารางปี 1839 ทำให้เกือบทุกฮ่อมทะลุออกที่ไหนสักแห่ง ในวงแหวนข้างนอก ฮ่อมคือทางเข้าบ้านที่ยี่สิบครอบครัวใช้ร่วมกัน และมันจบที่หลังสุดท้าย"
   },
   "kin": [
    {
     "to": "hom",
     "as": "The word.",
     "rel": "word"
    },
    {
     "to": "dead-ends",
     "as": "The count.",
     "rel": "measure"
    },
    {
     "to": "soi-numbering",
     "as": "How they are numbered.",
     "rel": "lane"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "lanna",
    "walk"
   ],
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     "tier": "harvested",
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    "fields": {
     "text_th": {
      "tier": "inference",
      "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
     }
    }
   },
   "confidence": "medium",
   "schema": 1,
   "updated": "2026-09-21",
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     "title": "File:- panoramio (4160).jpg",
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     "license": "CC BY 3.0",
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     "author": "Daibo Taku",
     "credit": "https://web.archive.org/web/20161022000650/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/56166068",
     "alt": "Thapae Road Soi 6, Muang Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Pa Daet, Saraphi District, Provinz Chiang Mai, 55520, Thailand",
     "date": "Taken on 17 July 2011",
     "primary": true,
     "sha256": "34078730d4d9d9df8b956a9f1d61f3af8ad7914d1ef777f437b69a5e66957263"
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    {
     "file": "hom-the-lane/hom-the-lane-20171106-chiang-mai-0182-dxo.jpg",
     "source": "commons",
     "title": "File:20171106 Chiang Mai 0182 DxO.jpg",
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     "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
     "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
     "author": "Jakub Hałun",
     "credit": "Own work",
     "alt": "Tangled cables over a street in Chiang Mai, Thailand",
     "date": "2017-11-06 15:50:55",
     "primary": false,
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    {
     "file": "hom-the-lane/hom-the-lane-chiang-mai-moonmuang-road-soi-7-0001.jpg",
     "source": "commons",
     "title": "File:Chiang Mai - Moonmuang Road Soi 7 - 0001.jpg",
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     "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChiang_Mai_-_Moonmuang_Road_Soi_7_-_0001.jpg",
     "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
     "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
     "author": "Stefan Fussan",
     "credit": "Own work - My images are also available on MyPortfolio",
     "alt": "Moonmuang Road Soi 7, Chiang Mai, Thailand",
     "date": "2014-05-23",
     "primary": false,
     "sha256": "187d85f46fa7500f9204abb98ea32217e82965d800fb428108e2c950da0fddf0"
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    {
     "file": "hom-the-lane/hom-the-lane-chiang-mai-ratchaphakhinai-soi-1-0001.jpg",
     "source": "commons",
     "title": "File:Chiang Mai - Ratchaphakhinai Soi 1 - 0001.jpg",
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     "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
     "author": "Stefan Fussan",
     "credit": "Own work - My images are also available on MyPortfolio",
     "alt": "Ratchaphakhinai Soi 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand - Junior Guest House on the left side",
     "date": "2014-05-23",
     "primary": false,
     "sha256": "ccdf5d1e8e6390206d58bf3a6815f24836a105a8980ee31f95a303198461a4d8"
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    {
     "file": "hom-the-lane/hom-the-lane-soi-in-chiang-mai.jpg",
     "source": "commons",
     "title": "File:Soi in Chiang Mai.JPG",
     "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Soi_in_Chiang_Mai.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
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     "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
     "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
     "author": "Adbar",
     "credit": "Own work",
     "alt": "A soi in Chiang Mai (Moonmuang Soi 9).",
     "date": "2013-04-27 16:39:05",
     "primary": false,
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   "kin_in": [
    {
     "from": "dead-ends",
     "type": "measure",
     "name": "Dead ends, zone by zone",
     "as": "The lanes."
    },
    {
     "from": "network-km",
     "type": "measure",
     "name": "The network, in kilometres",
     "as": "Where most of it is."
    },
    {
     "from": "soi-count",
     "type": "measure",
     "name": "Sois, counted by name",
     "as": "The lanes."
    },
    {
     "from": "hom",
     "type": "word",
     "name": "ฮ่อม hom",
     "as": "The lanes themselves."
    }
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   "id": "nimman-sois",
   "type": "lane",
   "names": {
    "name": "The Nimman sois",
    "th": "ซอยนิมมานเหมินท์",
    "rtgs": "Soi Nimmanhemin",
    "said": "Seventeen cuts off 1.3 km of road, each one a different evening.",
    "said_th": "สิบเจ็ดซอยจากถนน 1.3 กิโล แต่ละซอยคือค่ำคืนคนละแบบ"
   },
   "region": [
    "ring1"
   ],
   "text": {
    "what": "The numbered lanes off Nimmanhaemin Road, odd on the west side and even on the east. Soi 1 has held a festival since 1999. The lanes are counted on the measurements page from the map; the count of businesses on them is Mot Dang's job, not this site's."
   },
   "text_th": {
    "what": "ซอยเลขที่แยกจากถนนนิมมานเหมินท์ คี่ฝั่งตะวันตก คู่ฝั่งตะวันออก ซอย 1 มีเทศกาลตั้งแต่ 2542 ซอยถูกนับบนหน้าการวัดจากแผนที่ จำนวนร้านในซอยเป็นงานของมดแดง บ่ใช่เว็บนี้"
   },
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    "lon": 98.9675,
    "precision": "street"
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     "to": "nimmanhaemin-road",
     "as": "The road.",
     "rel": "road"
    },
    {
     "to": "soi-numbering",
     "as": "The rule.",
     "rel": "lane"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "night",
    "market"
   ],
   "links": [
    {
     "label": "Roads and sois on Mot Dang — every place, by road",
     "url": "https://motdang.net/soi.html"
    }
   ],
   "sources": [
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    "s:motdang-soi"
   ],
   "provenance": {
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     "tier": "cited",
     "source": "s:becommon-nimman"
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    "fields": {
     "text_th": {
      "tier": "inference",
      "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
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    }
   },
   "confidence": "medium",
   "schema": 1,
   "updated": "2026-09-21",
   "images": [
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     "file": "nimman-sois/nimman-sois-nimmanhemin-street-panoramio.jpg",
     "source": "commons",
     "title": "File:Nimmanhemin street - panoramio.jpg",
     "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Nimmanhemin_street_-_panoramio.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
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     "license": "CC BY 3.0",
     "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
     "author": "gary4now",
     "credit": "https://web.archive.org/web/20161110183317/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/47682935",
     "alt": "Nimmanhemin street",
     "date": "Taken on 6 July 2008",
     "primary": true,
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   "kin_in": [
    {
     "from": "nimmanhaemin-road",
     "type": "road",
     "name": "Nimmanhaemin Road",
     "as": "The seventeen cuts off it."
    },
    {
     "from": "soi-numbering",
     "type": "lane",
     "name": "How a soi gets its number",
     "as": "The worked example."
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  {
   "id": "soi-numbering",
   "type": "lane",
   "names": {
    "name": "How a soi gets its number",
    "th": "เลขซอยมาจากไหน",
    "rtgs": "lek soi",
    "said": "Odd on one side, even on the other, counted from the head of the road.",
    "said_th": "คี่ฝั่งหนึ่ง คู่อีกฝั่ง นับจากหัวถนน"
   },
   "region": [
    "thailand"
   ],
   "text": {
    "what": "A soi branches from a main road and is numbered along it, even numbers on one side and odd on the other, counting from the road's start; a lane off a soi is a trok or a sub-number. Named sois often carry a landowner's name. The main road's start is a decision someone made once, which is why Nimmanhaemin's numbers run from the Huay Kaew end."
   },
   "text_th": {
    "what": "ซอยแยกจากถนนหลักและได้เลขตามถนนนั้น เลขคู่ฝั่งหนึ่ง เลขคี่อีกฝั่ง นับจากต้นถนน ทางแยกจากซอยเป็นตรอกหรือเลขย่อย ซอยที่มีชื่อมักเป็นชื่อเจ้าของที่ดิน ต้นถนนคือการตัดสินใจที่ใครสักคนทำครั้งเดียว นี่คือเหตุที่เลขนิมมานเหมินท์นับจากฝั่งห้วยแก้ว"
   },
   "kin": [
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     "as": "The word.",
     "rel": "word"
    },
    {
     "to": "nimman-sois",
     "as": "The worked example.",
     "rel": "lane"
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      "tier": "inference",
      "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
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   },
   "confidence": "medium",
   "schema": 1,
   "updated": "2026-09-21",
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     "from": "hom-the-lane",
     "type": "lane",
     "name": "The hom",
     "as": "How they are numbered."
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    {
     "from": "nimman-sois",
     "type": "lane",
     "name": "The Nimman sois",
     "as": "The rule."
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    {
     "from": "soi-count",
     "type": "measure",
     "name": "Sois, counted by name",
     "as": "The rule."
    },
    {
     "from": "soi",
     "type": "word",
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     "as": "How the numbers work."
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