Dataset
Boston Precinct Boundaries
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Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 13
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-precinct-boundaries
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 | preserved | 31167 | fc54b5e55613ff3709552c57f5771eaec90ac382bb999d4374bd77df8e0bd2d8 | source |
| GeoJSON | preserved | 1031060 | 0442673931ee62736a9854b57e141667da6ff92a7d0d793ad7d7007e5bac1f0d | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | preserved | 192840 | ed2dcedbdbdc10ac1bfa9ec5ef3ca4d38bf35b90ac02ad981c9fe5bd5b8bd73e | 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 |
|---|---|---|
DISTRICT | text | |
WDPCT | text | |
Ward1 | text | |
Precinct1 | text | |
State_WDPC | text | |
Gov_Coun_2 | text | |
Rep_2022 | text | |
Senate_202 | text | |
Congress_2 | text | |
Shape_Leng | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:boston-precinct-boundaries
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-precinct-boundaries
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-precinct-boundaries.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-precinct-boundaries
- 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 |
| 3 | externalize-column-dictionary | The publisher's 13-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/boston-precinct-boundaries-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |