Help talk:Map Data

Wikimedia-specific info
Note, help pages on MediaWiki.org are normally expected not to contain Wikimedia-specific information such as those paragraphs about Commons and CC-0. Currently these are minimal enough and of some interest for third parties too, but keep an eye on their not growing further. --Nemo 08:43, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Non-CC0 (but open) licenses for map data?
It's frustrating that only CC0 data is allowed under the Data namespace, because it seems to be very unusual for electoral bodies to release boundary data into the public domain. It's reasonably common, however, for them to release it under various open data licenses. (For example, the Ordnance Survey's open data in the UK is released under the Open Government License, which is fine on the rest of Mediawiki Commons, but not under the Data namespace, apparently.) Is there somewhere I can read more about why this rule exists, or find out if there's any likely timescale for it being changed?

It would be brilliant if we could import more boundary data now that the Wikidata Query Service can render boundaries on maps! Mhl20 (talk) 16:07, 5 December 2017 (UTC)