diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/folium/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/folium/default.nix
index ccc8a300095c..8be25eafc613 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/folium/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/folium/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   branca,
   buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  geodatasets,
   geopandas,
   jinja2,
   nbconvert,
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
+    geodatasets
     geopandas
     nbconvert
     pandas
@@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "test_notebook"
     "test_valid_png_size"
     "test_valid_png"
+    # pooch tries to write somewhere it can, and geodatasets does not give us an env var to customize this.
+    "test_timedynamic_geo_json"
   ];
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "folium" ];
@@ -74,5 +78,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/python-visualization/folium";
     changelog = "https://github.com/python-visualization/folium/blob/v${version}/CHANGES.txt";
     license = with lib.licenses; [ mit ];
+    maintainers = lib.teams.geospatial.members;
   };
 }