Village names in southern Laos

Following a discussion about an old changeset on OpenStreetMap, I’m posting a few photos here that I took during mapping trips. All pictures are taken back in Oct 2011.

Overview map with geotagged pictures: 

Unzip Processing Algorithm for QGIS

 While there is the handy QGIS processing algorithm Download file, often publicly availabe (geo-)data are compressed in a ZIP archive. That's why I've started to develop a "Unzip Archive" processing algorithm for use in the QGIS processing toolbox. Thanks to the already available class QgsZipUtils it was not that difficult.

Updates in 2021

Apart from updating and rerun the scripts for the cloudless atlas, unfortunately no updates ... :(

Cloudless Atlas Laos 2020

To track down new hydro power reservoir and schemes I've downloaded most 2020 Landsat 8 scenes of northern Laos and applied my cloudless script.

Northern Laos

The Nam Ngiep Hydropower Scheme

Just recently I continued mapping the Nam Ngiep hydropower scheme, see also my previous post about Nam Ngiep 1.

So far my findings:

Nam Ngiep1

Yet Another Hydropower Dam: Nam Ngiep 1

Meanwhile Nam Ngiep 1 dam has been completed and the reservoir has been filled during rainy season in 2018. I.e., it's high time to put in on the map!

Nam Ngiep 1 reservoir area in January 2018

New hydropower dam: Nam Phay

Just recently I've put the Nam Phay hydropower reservoir on the map!

During Lao New Year 2014 I had the chance to visite this area, see pictures below:

The Nam Phay reservoir area in Januar 2015