(Tim accidentally attributed some remarks to me that were actually
made by Ed Poor. No big problem, I just note it in case it comes up
in the future!)
Ed said, essentially, "Whatever Mav wants is fine with me."
Mav is quoted thusly:
There was a
push to have Australian cities preemptively disambiguated a
while ago (just as American and Canadian cities are), but that movement
seemed to loose steam. I'm not sure what the Aussies want now.
Well, I can tell you what three of the Aussies want: Tannin and I are in
favour of simple names and Karen's happy to go along (although she argued
for preemptive disambiguation originally). As far I as can see Robert Merkel
has not expressed an opinion. That only leaves the less regular contributors
such as Arno and Peter Eckersley (Pde).
I think we should do the same thing for all countries, or at least all
English speaking countries, or for all cities that meet some popular
recognition threshold, whatever that may be.
--Jimbo