Boston Neighborhood Boundaries

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Boston Neighborhood Boundaries

Boston Neighborhood Boundaries represent a combination of zoning neighborhood boundaries, zip code boundaries and 2010 census tract boundaries. These boundaries are used in the broad sense for visualization purposes, research analysis and planning studies. However these boundaries are not official…

Dataset

Publisher: Boston Maps
Spatial coverage: Boston, Massachusetts
Fields: 7
Keywords: BPDA neighborhoods, boston neighborhoods, boundary, neighborhood, planning
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/bpda-neighborhood-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	2425	`a45a9a2887b23efadfe9b0ccb6bf950583748ba7b012340981b9eccf03626041`	source
GeoJSON	preserved	1317938	`d69407f3a1db76af7fb2510102afd0ec77d97cf5f7e070943c6535513032b7df`	source
HTML	referenced	—	`—`	source
KML	preserved	352411	`9bbda2d031f22c2f0e0895353f85cffccb5dbf1fd78a06fb9727a0afbc708753`	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
`name`	text
`acres`	text
`neighborhood_id`	text
`sqmiles`	text
`Shape_Length`	text
`Shape_Area`	text
`shape_wkt`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/3aafb5ae248bf2934ca5df6884703391/bpda-neighborhood-boundaries-columns.json — 840 bytes, SHA-256 3aafb5ae248bf293…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Boston Neighborhood Boundaries, and under what license?

Boston Maps publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.