As there are so many different and confusing ways of transferring Thai street/road names into English, I would like to propose that the ’ guidelines for Thai Romanization ’ according to the recommendations of Thai Royal Institute should be used.
The ’ Thai Romanization ’ program can solve this problem.
I also notice that English names of Thai streets in waze combines some Thai words that comprise several words together into one, for example;
เสนานิคม (เสนา+นิคม) = Senanikhom. The correct name should be ’ Sena Nikhom’.
ประเสริฐมนูกิจ ( ประเสริฐ+มนู+กิจ ) =Prasoet Manu Kit. in maze, it is still the old name, ’ Kaset-Nawamin ’
The official name of ประเสริฐมนูกิจ is Prasert-Manukitch (not by maze but by Ko Tho Mo?) which is even very queer. It should be corrected.
The official name of ‘Senaruamthai’ is 'ประเสริฐมนูกิจ 14 which should = Prasoet Manu Kit 14.
I would appreciate to have a Standard in the whole country. But there are a few problems. The program in current version 1.4 is only tested in Win98, ME, XP. Is there a way to install it on an other OS without using a VM, or are there other sources?
Another thing is, although it is used by the government, it seems to be that sometimes the plaques are different. As i mentioned in this thread http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=168&t=5749&start=10 with the plaques of Sri Nagarindra par example, which in my understanding should be written in two words.
Another plaque i have found in Udon Thani it’s called Sri Suk and the english word below says Srisook Road ?
In Chiang Mai they use Lane as a word for Soi on the plaques.
When it comes to Thai romanization, the standard is none. Trust me.
It’s 2015 and now Bangkok have installed new signage all over the city mostly at intersections. I consider these signs quite …reliable. Even though there are standards, there is virtually none. Even common names like ถนนราชดำเนิน (which existed in several provinces) (literally the road that the king travels) still gets different romanization.
My two cent, don’t worry much on standards here. There’s none. Trust me, I’m a local.