Dataset
Boston Police Stations (BPD Only)
Point layer of Boston police station locations. Includes BPD Headquarters and Area police stations- shared publicly on Analyze Boston
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 14
- Keywords
- boston, bostonmaps, bpd, ckan, departments, police
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-police-stations-bpd-only
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 3083 | 35d6aa94d7340e1cef39bc7ca622b9f9a50cc829f31f1f806aa5a9a17f4f3723 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 6449 | 92e7a63c0e68efe3f4186eb2e6086036c3107e28e5c43dfc185eb850d4241088 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 4982 | 807541c914d3108c91cdd7fdbb595a51f3561f55809b73592986a8c84c6efb3a | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
BLDG_ID | text | |
BID | text | |
ADDRESS | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text | |
NAME | text | |
NEIGHBORHOOD | text | |
CITY | text | |
ZIP | text | |
FT_SQFT | text | |
STORY_HT | text | |
PARCEL_ID | text | |
District | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:boston-police-stations-bpd-only
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-police-stations-bpd-only
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-police-stations-bpd-only.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- boston-police-stations-bpd-only
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |