Case study / Office directory

อปท.com case study

อปท.com is a directory of more than 7,800 Thai local-government offices. Each office has a page with a map and weather, and the site adds warning maps, trip ideas, news and an AI question assistant. The data is public and refreshed on a schedule.

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Role: Built and run by me
Stack: PHP 8.2, MariaDB, MapLibre, cron jobs
Interface: Thai
Data: Public sources, updated on a schedule

My role

I built and run the site: the search, the office pages, the maps, the scheduled data jobs and the AI assistant. The interface is in Thai.

The problem

Thailand has thousands of local-government offices. Finding the right one, and seeing what is happening in its area, means visiting many separate sites. People who plan a trip or follow a warning want one clear page for a place.

The approach

Every office gets its own page. The page joins a map, weather and news for that area. Province pages show risk areas on a warning map in light or dark theme. A trip hub shows seasons, festivals and a live warning banner.

An AI assistant answers questions in Thai. It carries a notice that AI can be wrong. I use AI only where it answers a real question.

Data comes from public sources and updates on a schedule through cron jobs. If a source fails, the page keeps the last data and says when it was updated, instead of hiding the section.

Stack

PHP 8.2, MariaDB, MapLibre and cron jobs, as listed on the demo page. The AI part uses the shared AI gateway described in the IDUnify case study.

Screens

Public data, updated daily

Public pages with public data, updated daily. Contact details on office pages are blurred in the screenshots.

Thai national warnings map with coloured risk areas — Public data

Province warning page with risk areas, light theme — Public data

Province warning page with risk areas, dark theme — Public data

An office page with a map and weather widgets — Public data, contact details blurred

Trip hub with seasons, festivals and a live warning banner — Public data

Thai warnings map on a phone — Public data

The Thai ask-AI assistant on อปท.com on a phone, with a question box and an AI-can-be-wrong notice — Public data

What is public and what is not

Public: the site, its public data, the stack and the screens above. The live site is อปท.com.

Not public: server details, the data update rules and anything about private integrations. I do not publish traffic numbers or search rankings. I do not claim that the data is complete or error free.

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