{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "laos-vietnam",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 2,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "C",
 "sources": [
  "CITES-1",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "botanicals: empty on purpose. The Species+ distribution of Aquilaria malaccensis (CITES-1, read 2026-09-30) includes Viet Nam but not Laos; which Aquilaria the page’s Laos pin stands for is not filed. Lane 21 (2026-09-30): the Laos / Vietnam pin is off the page (the harvest table, the world map and the globe); the world map’s oud pin is now Borneo (origins/sarawak-my). This record and its page stay (no URL breaks).",
 "place": {
  "value": "Laos / Vietnam",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:123",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q819 (Laos), a country centroid; the pin straddles two countries"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no region source filed"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Laos; Vietnam",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:124",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "two countries: the page’s pin reads “LAOS/VIET”"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 18.2,
  "lon": 104.1,
  "precision": "a country centroid for Laos (Wikidata P625); the pin straddles Laos and Vietnam",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q819 (Laos) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:127",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Asia/Vientiane",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:130",
  "quote": "LA\t+1758+10236\tAsia/Vientiane",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "Vietnam is Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh; both keep the same offset today (data/1b/harvest.json)"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no source filed"
 },
 "botanicals": [],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-oud"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "On record here: the place name, Wikidata’s centre point for Laos and the local time; not on record: which Aquilaria grows here, a region, a harvest season or traditions (the CITES database lists Aquilaria malaccensis in Vietnam but not in Laos). Laos and Vietnam were once the page’s second point for oud; the pin is gone.",
  "body": [
   "This record keeps Wikidata’s centroid for Laos and its local time; no point for Vietnam is filed."
  ]
 }
}