On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:36:38PM -0500, jesse
wrote:
> So, would that be Manchester NH, Manchester, MA or one of the other
Manchesters?
I meant to add that I'll leave it to USians to
comment on whether theirs
should be a three level system with state. In most
countries this
doesn't tend to be necessary.
To quote the London guide:
* The names of English towns are by no means unique, for example,
there are two Ashfords, one in [Middlesex]?, near Heathrow Airport, and
the other in Kent.
(
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Easily_Made_Mistakes)
That said...
USians could probably cope with a first-come first-serve for top-level .us
domains with a fallback to city-state (saintpaul-mn) or somesuch if two
guides spring up with a namespace clash inside a country (springfield will
be painful). The generic domain either resolving to a "Choose which city
you mean" page or to the first guide to use the name, with the
understanding that they'll be good social people and have a "If you
intended to get to Boston, Arkansas please try
http://boston-ak.us.openguides.org"
I have no clue why I prefer a hyphen in this instance to a subdomain, but
I find it easier to parse [
guide].[country].openguides.org vs
[guide].[possible
state].[country].openguides.org just seems to be more
useful and global to me since Ashford in Middlesex will probably have to
resort to something like this after the OpenGuides Craze out near Heathrow
spreads.
-Chris