[Tagging] How to tag named group of named water areas?

Richard ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 18:45:39 UTC 2018


On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 08:40:44AM +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote:

> Yes, the Wiki is far from perfect. That's a big reason we have these
> endless debates. But how should we go about fixing it? An additional issue
> for me is the difficulty of adding information to the Wiki. I've been a
> programmer in my earlier life so I'm not a newbie when it comes to looking
> at and interpreting code but the markup language for the Wiki is, IMHO,
> simply horrible.  Someone once suggested I write up a Proposal for a tag I
> was thinking about. No thanks. I have better things to do with my time than
> to try to learn how that infernal formatting works.

for entirely new stuff, you can write in any markup language that you know or 
libreoffice (ODT) and use pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) to convert to mediawiki.

You won't get the OSM specific templates but that is a smaller problem.

Richard



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