Current and planned sky coverage of LoLSS. Each dot is a pointing of the full survey. Red dots are scheduled to be observed by 2022 with a priority on extragalactic fields. The region presented in this paper is coloured in yellow (cycle 8 data), blue (cycle 9 data) and green (cycle 12 data). Solid black lines show the position of the Galactic plane with Galactic latitude: −10°, 0°, +10°.