I’m trying to understand how to interpret the “Parsed by Markdown” table that appears next to the text “Body” in the OSM “New Diary Entry” form.

I understand to add a heading I must prefix it with a pound sign followed by a space “# “ : # This is a heading

To create an “Unordered list” you prefix the text with an asterisk followed by a space “* “

• First item in an unordered list
• Second item in and unordered list

Similarly an “Ordered list” is a number followed by a period and a space “1. “

1. First item
2. Second item

A link is to be entered by using the format “Text”. Here you retain the brackets and parenthesis and replace the word “Text” with the name of the URL and letters “URL” with the actual web address.

Here’s an example where I replaced “Text” with “OSM Diary Form” and URL with “http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary/new”

OSM Diary Form

The last example for displaying an image is giving me trouble. The problem is that you need to use a URL for an image and the places I store photos like Flicker and Google Photos don’t allows you to copy the link to the image file.

The format is “”.