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The communityOpen by licence and by choice

Real harbours, edited by the people who berth in them.

Cleats, piles, depths, whether the pontoon floats, and the note about the wind that only a local knows. Draw your own and publish it, or take one and sail it offline.

“Practise Marina X before I go there” is the sentence that sells this app to a sailor who has never heard of it.

What lives thereThree kinds of thing

01HarboursReal places, versioned. Search by name, download, and keep it on the device. Improvements are proposed against a version, not overwritten.
02Runs“How I got into box 12 in a westerly” — a situation you can replay and then sail yourself. The one thing no forum can hand you.
03QuestionsAsked with a run or an exercise attached, and answered the same way: not an opinion about the manoeuvre, but the manoeuvre.
The licenceWhy it is open

Harbours that begin in OpenStreetMap are a derivative database, so sharing them means sharing them under the ODbL. The commons is therefore open by law before it is open by choice — and the choice follows.

Every contributed harbour is published under the ODbL, the attribution travels inside the file, and a dump of the whole commons is downloadable by anyone. A harbour behind a paywall is one nobody improves.

  • One licence for the whole database — two would make it unusable
  • Runs and exercises stay the author’s, with CC BY at their option
  • Improvements that belong in OpenStreetMap should be offered back to it
  • Report, block and moderation exist before the first post

Bring your harbour

Tell us which one you would draw first.