Download page @Ubuntu.com

[Baasha]

I'm not sure this is the right list to post this to, but if not, perhaps 
someone can point me in the right direction.

I would like to make two points about the Download Ubuntu page at 
Ubuntu.com:

1. There is a long list of mirrors which are divided by countries and 
regions.  But within those divisions there is no indication of the 
geographical locations.  The whole idea of having mirrors, I thought, 
was to enable users to pick the one closest to home in order to take the 
load off any one server and also to speed up download time.  Sometimes 
one can figure out where the mirror is by clues in the website address 
(universities, for instance).  But in most cases there is no clue.  The 
average user is just going to pick the first server in the list, which 
defeats the whole purpose.  I would suggest that next to the server name 
you place a location to rectify this problem.

As an aside, there no longer seems to be any servers in Canada, which is 
a pity.  A location in western Canada would be nice.

2.  In the download instructions we are told to check the integrity of 
the download using the md5sums.  The md5sums are conspicuous by their 
absence on the Ubuntu site.  Using a search of the site turns up 
nothing.  I checked on the forums about this and was given a couple of 
non-official Ubuntu sites which give a lot of information about checking 
the md5sum for a Ubuntu download, but they both refer the user back to 
the download site to get the numbers.  The links for the mirrors only 
produce the actual distribution download.  A new user would soon get 
tired of this run-around and just give up.

Bob