Licences

Data licences

The 71 active geo layers fall under 4 different licences. They are grouped by licence, with a link to the full text of each.

In addition, the Strategic Noise Map 2022 (Berlin Environmental Atlas, ua_stratlaerm_2022, licence: Data licence Germany, zero, version 2.0) feeds into the Kiez score as a build aggregate per planning area.

Election data

Election results from 14 Berlin elections since 2011 (Bundestag, House of Representatives, District Assembly) are not available as a separate geo layer but as database aggregates. Sources and licence of the three data providers:

Federal Election Commissioner (Bundeswahlleiterin)

Bundestag elections 2013, 2017, 2021, 2025 as polling district statistics (_wbz.zip). Licence: Data licence Germany, attribution, version 2.0.

bundeswahlleiterin.de

Statistics Office Berlin-Brandenburg (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg)

House of Representatives and District Assembly elections 2011, 2016, 2021, 2023 as an XLSX sheet pipeline plus polling district polygons (shapefile releases per election, reprojected to WGS84). Licence: Data licence Germany, attribution, version 2.0.

statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de

Berlin State Election Commissioner (Landeswahlleiterin Berlin)

House of Representatives and District Assembly elections 2026 as a CSV data export per polling district (wahlen-berlin.de). Licence: Data licence Germany, attribution, version 2.0.

wahlen-berlin.de

Methodology: Election data

Demographics

Residents per LOR planning area are not available as a separate geo layer. We use them as precomputed totals for per-capita values and the demographic context.

Residents in LOR planning areas on 31 December 2024

Residents by year of age for each of 542 LOR planning areas, joined via the 8-digit RAUMID. Licence: CC BY 4.0, Statistics Office Berlin-Brandenburg (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg).

daten.berlin.de

Crime atlas

Case numbers and frequency rates per LOR Bezirksregion feed into the Kiez score as precomputed values, not as a separate geo layer.

Berlin crime atlas (Kriminalitätsatlas Berlin)

Offence case numbers and frequency rates 2016 to 2025 from the Berlin Police, geocoded at LOR level. Licence: Data licence Germany, attribution, version 2.0.

kriminalitaetsatlas.berlin.de

Methodology: Kiez score

Climate data (German Weather Service, DWD)

Historical time series of summer days and heat days from four Berlin weather stations (Dahlem, Tempelhof, Buch, Brandenburg) are available as a build aggregate in the heat context.

German Weather Service (DWD) · Climate Data Center

Daily values of the station measurements (daily KL, historical). Licence: CC BY 4.0, attribution German Weather Service.

opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC

Entity references

Bezirk pages point via sameAs to the matching entity in open knowledge bases, so that search engines can assign the page unambiguously.

Wikidata

Q IDs of the 12 current Berlin Bezirke as a sameAs reference in the JSON-LD. Licence: CC0.

wikidata.org

Wikipedia (German)

Article reference per Bezirk as an additional sameAs entry. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

de.wikipedia.org

Software

Main runtime libraries. Full list in the repository under package.json.

Fonts

IBM Plex Serif, Sans and Mono under SIL Open Font License 1.1, delivered via Fontsource.

github.com/IBM/plex · OFL 1.1

OpenStreetMap attribution

The ODbL layers (Stolpersteine, public transport stations, drinking fountains, cool places, S-Bahn network, U-Bahn network, tram network, cycling network, bicycle streets) are based on OpenStreetMap data. Licence: Open Database License 1.0.

© OpenStreetMap contributors. Data available at openstreetmap.org/copyright.