[OSM-talk] Modifying variable in wiki

[Lars Aronsson]

Konrad Skeri wrote:

> How do I modify a variable in a template on the wiki.
> 
> In the Swedish version of the place-template there's a link to a
> weather site with forecasts for the city. Works for all Swedish cities
> as long as there is no space in the area name. However, for Vastra
> Gotaland the url of the area part to the weather site has to be
> Vastra_Gotaland. Is there a simple way to handle this (changing spaces
> to _) within the wiki-templare, or do I have to pass a url-friendly
> area name as a variable?

I guess this is 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Sv:Place
and the link 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/{{urlencode:{{{name}}}}}

Urlencode should work, since it changes space to "+". Doesn't this 
work? Perhaps the OSM server needs to be changed to accept "+".

An alternative is to write Västra_Götaland (with underscore) in 
the page that calls the template.


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