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With an exception for Patrick Stewart playing Professor X of course. I think we can all agree on that.

As a westerner who travels often and struggles with the moral and ethical issue of visiting North Korea as a tourist, I may be able to help clarify, at least from my perspective.

North Korea is the last surviving Stalinist-style Cult of Personality state. Much of the architectural styles that are common to these types of states will never be built again and are often destroyed afterwards. Additionally, certain types of cultural events such as the Arirang Festival are really only feasible in these types of states.

Basically, as horrible as North Korea is, it is a unique culture that has no surviving equal anywhere else in the world, and will one day become extinct.

It is difficult not to be curious and to want to experience it before it is gone.

It sounds like overall you've adjusted quite well to your new life, but just to be safe, be careful of a concept called Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Your comment about "I always feel small" may be innocent, but there are people for who that becomes a serious psychological issue.

Best of luck with everything, the middle of your story makes me happy, I can't wait to see how the rest of it goes.

HTTP 420 Enhance Your Calm is an unofficial status code Twitter sends when you make API calls too fast.

One business is working to be a canonical geospatial database of outdoor points of interest (think OSM for mountains, trails, campgrounds, etc.) with a lot more detail. I source my data from a wide variety of sources, some open (government data) and some through private licensing deals.

I was hoping to use OSM as one source of data that would get mixed into the rest of the data and edited over time in my system. The intention was to then contribute all data I could back to OSM and help flesh out the outdoor data in OSM.

I've talked to various people associated with OSM through email and IRC channels and I can't get a clear answer to what type of database that would be, what my legal obligations to OSM would be. Specifically my lawyer couldn't figure how to deal with conflicting data licensing, for example if OSM requires me to contribute modified data back, but that modified data was the result of private licensing which I can't legally give to OSM.

Eventually we started talking about all these crazy ways I could structure my PostGIS database to be within the letter of the ODbl that would avoid any obligation to give any data back but that caused two problems for me:

1. I like OSM and want to respect the spirit of the project license.
2. I am not going to engineer my infrastructure around a license no one seems to understand.

I sincerely hope I and my lawyer have just misunderstood or got bad information, but ultimately we decided to drop any sort of OSM integration until the legal landscape is much clearer. This seems to be a common feeling among commercial GIS startups I've talked to in the process of trying to make sense of it.

I wish the OSM project luck because it's an awesome project and much needed, I hope one day it's less risky for commercial ventures to utilize OSM data and contribute back.