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It's a good question. Maps and navigation software aren't the most expensive things on earth, yet it's still unclear to me why should one pay to obtain what in principle ought to be absolutely public information. There also is a far more worrying reason: since there is no other way to prove that you have been copying, commercial chart publishers DO insert false information in what they publish (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs).

Blue Flag #64 reports some concern about whether the DBA is cliquey or not. Personally I gather it's a wrong question. I simply do not know any human organization that is not cliquey, to some extent. So maybe a more efficient way to pose the question is limited in defining our cliqueyness rate, if you will excuse a funny neologism.

So this is my first barge blog. I kind of didn't want to be the first writing one, since I'm not writing from a barge, but Lena and I just observed how weird it is that all the wind in the universe seems to blow in our street while the America's Cup in Valencia is being postponed one more time.