{
 "id": "map-war-office-1946",
 "type": "map",
 "names": {
  "name": "The War Office sheet, 1946",
  "th": "แผ่นของ War Office 2489",
  "said": "London's map of Siam the year after the war, 85 cm across.",
  "said_th": "แผนที่สยามของลอนดอนในปีถัดจากสงคราม กว้าง 85 ซม."
 },
 "region": [
  "thailand"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "siam",
  "year": "1946",
  "order": 15
 },
 "sheet": {
  "year": "1946",
  "maker": "War Office, London",
  "maker_th": "War Office ลอนดอน",
  "shows": "The country as the Allies had it, at the moment the roads were about to be built.",
  "shows_th": "ประเทศอย่างที่ฝ่ายสัมพันธมิตรมี ในช่วงเวลาที่ถนนกำลังจะถูกสร้าง",
  "extent": "85 cm across",
  "extent_th": "กว้าง 85 ซม."
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A coloured map of Siam by the War Office in London, the year after the war and two years before the moat roads. Wartime and immediately post-war mapping of this country is unusually good because armies needed it, and it is the reason a 1945 city sheet at 1:5,000 exists at all."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "แผนที่สยามสีของ War Office ในลอนดอน ปีถัดจากสงครามและสองปีก่อนถนนรอบคู การทำแผนที่ประเทศนี้ช่วงสงครามและหลังสงครามใหม่ ๆ ดีผิดปกติเพราะกองทัพต้องใช้ และเป็นเหตุที่แผ่นเมืองมาตราส่วน 1:5,000 ปี 2488 มีอยู่เลย"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "map-1945",
   "as": "Its city-scale sibling.",
   "rel": "map"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "heritage"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:commons-map"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:commons-map"
  },
  "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",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "map-war-office-1946/map-war-office-1946-siam-map-1946-thailand-by-war-office-london.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Siam Map 1946 (Thailand) by War Office London.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Siam_Map_1946_%28Thailand%29_by_War_Office_London.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASiam_Map_1946_%28Thailand%29_by_War_Office_London.jpg",
   "license": "Public domain",
   "license_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain",
   "author": "War Office in London, United Kingdom, 1946",
   "credit": "Trove - https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2917615881/view?searchTerm=siam#search/siam",
   "alt": "Title: 'Siam'. Map of Siam (Thailand) in 1946. Creator: War Office, London (United Kingdom). Call Number MAP G8025 1946. Dimensions: 1 map : col. ; 85 x 52 cm. on sheet 102 x 61 cm. 1st edition.",
   "date": "1946",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "642b5770c6da337b0183328b3bbe9aac3f16e9c627a1180ad21637abcd0a7e62"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": []
}