Editing the Wiki of OpenStreetMap ================================= I have decided to translate Wiki pages of the OpenStreetMap foundation[1] into Hebrew so people can find the pages in that language. While doing so, I found more things about OpenStreetMap and its uses: not only to navigate, send comments and maybe edit, but it also attracts attention from universities. At least the University of London. To start editing, you should first create an OSM Wiki account. Sometimes, visual editing is easy and good enough. But, sometimes, you better edit a source. Source code eiting is not very scary because the wiki uses some king of markup language similar to Markdown. For example, if I wanted to copy a 'div' element or a template, I would prefer editing or creating a source. Some useful markups are: == Heading 2 == === Heading 3 === up to ====== Heading 6 ====== [[A link inside the Wiki]] can be an Image, then you start with [[Image: [External Link] You can add text to be displayed instead of the address with "|" after the Wiki page name between the '[[' and the ']]' or inside single brackets after the URL and a white space. '''bold the text''' Curly braces are used for templates, e.g. {{Software}} or {{Languages}} The templates are copied, but there are params to set in them. Some items can be translated into your language. Or you can copy a section or subsection using '{{:' and the link and then '}}'. Copy from an existing sources, if something is missing. BTW, the source editors also has a toolbar from which you can choose text stylings and add links. For me, that's a good place to stop. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org