We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost half of the Galactic Plane ($251^\circ \le l \le 358^\circ$ and $2^\circ \le l \le 61^\circ$ at $|b| \le 1.5^\circ$). SMGPS is the…