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Vertical triptych of satellite imagery showing the creation of a man-made lagoon in the Philippines. The top image shows a typical forested coastline with land at the top and the sea at the bottom with several houses in two clusters at the northwest corner and along the eastern edge of the image. The middle image shows the beginning of the creation of a man-made lagoon surrounded by extensive areas of sand along the western coastline. The bottom image shows the more-or-less finished lagoon with four inner sandy islets occupying most of the southwestern coastline.

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Vertical triptych of satellite imagery showing the creation of a man-made lagoon in the Philippines. The top image shows a typical forested coastline with land at the top and the sea at the bottom with several houses in two clusters at the northwest corner and along the eastern edge of the image. The middle image shows the beginning of the creation of a man-made lagoon surrounded by extensive areas of sand along the western coastline. The bottom image shows the more-or-less finished lagoon with four inner sandy islets occupying most of the southwestern coastline.
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Eugene Alvin Villar (seav@en.osm.town)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 21:07:10 JST Eugene Alvin Villar

While doing some editing in #OpenStreetMap, I stumbled onto this dramatic transformation at Domoroy Point in Barangay Matayum, Cataingan, Masbate, #Philippines 🇵🇭. In a bid to boost tourism, the local government created the huge man-made Matayum Lagoon.
You can see the transformation by switching to different aerial imagery layers. Mapbox at the top shows the area before the lagoon was created, the middle from Bing with the initial excavation, and the bottom from Esri with the finished lagoon.

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