The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Charging Stations

Electric vehicle charging stations located within the City of Boston.

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
41
Keywords
boston, btd, charging stations, ckan, transportation
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/charging-stations

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.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
ArcGIS GeoServices REST APIreferenced——source
CSVpreserved198875b172b2e3592ab5a46ab0a82887d86f992e10e5ef9cbd2e86d637764005b5ccesource
GeoJSONpreserved68621a911a06817749c8cb24c77c4e07497177b5b43c233074b302018cc71acb86275source
HTMLreferenced——source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved8724890fa4511fd65d1fae776fc18fc76ef052488e833ba5d5667f2f6ae49a5f4cf49source
ZIPreferenced——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.

ColumnTypeDescription
Xtext
Ytext
OBJECTIDtext
Fuel_Type_Codetext
Station_Nametext
Street_Addresstext
Intersection_Directionstext
Citytext
Statetext
ZIPtext
Plus4text
Station_Phonetext
Status_Codetext
Expected_Datetext
Groups_With_Access_Codetext
Access_Days_Timetext
Cards_Acceptedtext
BD_Blendstext
NG_Fill_Type_Codetext
NG_PSItext
EV_Level1_EVSE_Numtext
EV_Level2_EVSE_Numtext
EV_DC_Fast_Counttext
EV_Other_Infotext
EV_Networktext
EV_Network_Webtext
Geocode_Statustext
Latitudetext
Longitudetext
Date_Last_Confirmedtext
IDtext
Updated_Attext
Owner_Type_Codetext
Federal_Agency_IDtext
Federal_Agency_Nametext
Open_Datetext
Hydrogen_Status_Linktext
NG_Vehicle_Classtext
LPG_Primarytext
E85_Blender_Pumptext
EV_Connector_Typestext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/f0d8cdd02c28052e427c760df3029b64/charging-stations-columns.json — 2710 bytes, SHA-256 f0d8cdd02c28052e…, 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 Charging Stations, 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does Charging Stations cover?

In space, Boston, Massachusetts.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Charging Stations?

41 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of Charging Stations?

Yes, for 3 of 7 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for Charging Stations, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Charging Stations from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:charging-stations
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/charging-stations
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/charging-stations.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
charging-stations
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 41-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/f0d8cdd02c28052e427c760df3029b64/charging-stations-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