Since I finished mapping my hometown from almost white in the early September, I’ve been wondering what to map next. I’ve tried railway station sidings near my hometown but find that it’s not the most urgent to do. Then I went to my university campus. Here’s how it looks by now after my edit of ~300 ways and ~1200 nodes included in 5 changesets recently.

Situation here was quite different from that I met before in my less developed hometown where nothing has been mapped, actually, there were many features already here created by other students. It should be a good news generally, for less work is needed. However some of them are ambiguously and even inappropriately tagged, with grass tagged as meadow, dormitory tagged as hostel, wood tagged as forest, service roads tagged as track, etc. So the main work done by me is to correct them. Besides, some area was still left uncompleted for the cloud in the imagery and I mapped buildings there according to my knowledge and paper maps.

It’s quite different to map the area where many other people have worked. Correcting and updating them gave me a new experience in contributing to OpenStreetMap in China. Next step, reorganize the main line railway network in China using relations and add the missing ones according to national standard ref numbers of railway lines, i.e. GBT 25344-2010.