OSM SHANTOU PROJECT

## OSM 汕头市计划

Greeting to all OSM editors,

As (former) local citizen of Shantou city I’ve recently begun to edit the Shantou Area OSM (Wikipedia of Shantou: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantou). The project is not, however, limited to Shantou municipal area. Several modifications of mine were located in Jieyang and Chaozhou (the Chaoshan Intl. Airport and Chaoshan Railway Station as well as their proximity areas).

So far I’ve completed some blocks of the center city area of Shantou, particularly those around big commercial center, schools and some hospitals. The airport and railway stations are also completed from my point of view.

Since I’ve lived in the center city, the local knowledge serves well.

Generally there are already some works done at Shantou area: most of the main streets and highways, the coastline. I believe that there were some OSM editors who had already made some contributions (probably students of Shantou University since there is a well structured STU area on OSM now).

The project consists rougly of:

1. The center of the Shantou City (Jinping* and Longhu Districts): buildings, neighbourhoods, local streets and alleys, etc. which is relatively easy for me to complete.
2. The rural area (Chenhai, Haojiang, Chaoyang, Chaonan Districts, of which I don’t possess enough local knowledge for these areas).
3. The island Nao’ao County: I’ve made some modifications about the landscapes and added some buildings but it’s far from done.

The project can be expanded to a Grand Chaoshan Area Project if local editors of Chaozhou and Jieyang City join in.

• It would be very interesting if the historical area of Jinping District (老市区), especially the area of Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Pavilion (小公园纪念亭) be completed by marking all historical buildings. It would be useful for the memorial protection work (actually some NGO in Shantou has done some remarkable works, ex. 汕头山水社).