[talk-au] Basic search, first attempt

[Jack Burton]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 13:39 +0000, John Smith wrote:
> This case is an exception since there is a place=* node for Perth which
>  is marked as a capital city, does anyone know 2 towns or villiages or
>  ... with the same names in different states? or even same state I
>  guess...

Same state cases:

In SA we have two Kingstons and two Stirlings, but we use suffixes to
tell them apart (Kingston-on-Murray cf. Kingston SE; Stirling cf.
Stirling N -- the latter is not just a normal "just North of" modifier,
Stirling N is in a completely different part of the state to Stirling).

Different state cases:

I remember hearing many years ago that Holden decided to call their
Australian models Kingswood & Belmont because they were the only two
town/suburb names that occurred in every Australian state. Not sure
whether this is apocryphal or not, but I do recall coming across places
with those names in at least three different states.