I (at Geofabrik) have no record of a prior communication with you about Laos, but one or two other people have asked about it and I always tell them to use extract.bbbike.org http://extract.bbbike.org which is updated weekly and gives you arbitrary extracts! The generic answer to "why doesn't Geofabrik offer X" is usually: It takes some work to get the extract boundary right (hard to do automatically), hence countries are only added if there's enough interest to warrant me sitting down and setting it up. But since your interest seems to be strong enough to sign up here and ask, I've now configured Laos and it should be available daily from tomorrow on.

I (at Geofabrik) have no record of a prior communication with you about Laos, but one or two other people have asked about it and I always tell them to use extract.bbbike.org which is updated weekly and gives you arbitrary extracts! The generic answer to "why doesn't Geofabrik offer X" is usually: It takes some work to get the extract boundary right (hard to do automatically), hence countries are only added if there's enough interest to warrant me sitting down and setting it up. But since your interest seems to be strong enough to sign up here and ask, I've now configured Laos and it should be available daily from tomorrow on.