One of the biggest internment camps near the region capital city Ürümqi was removed the prison tag several months ago by China mapper which claimed it is just a re-education facility for the Uyghurs , that was claimed by the China Authorities .

Now a report by Buzzfeednews findout that there are more internment camps and most of the camps are expand, which could assumed that there are more people send to these places. And some OSM mappers re-examine the previous found internment camps, and findout just west of the previous found one near Ürümq, there is a new infrastructure was built, which means no sight close down.

Some mappers who saw the news and want to map the area, wish to have a list of these camps. If someone remove camps, then we have a list and can re-add the camp back on map.

Some Chinese mappers are defending their government claims of these facility are re-education center for Uyghurs. But for OSM mappers, if a removed happened, it should have strong evidence to support their claims and then remove these named facility. If no these facility should keep what is tagged. And I have to say sorry keep commenting on one of a Chinese mappers changeset, hope the alert mail won’t make him in trouble.

I hope they could record something on Mapillary, we could see the image of re-education facility as real educational institute, and see some happy Uyghurs learning useful stuff for life, earning their livings after they finished their training program.