The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

City Land Audit (Public)

A dataset published by Boston Maps on the City of Boston open-data portal.

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
12
Keywords
parcels, property, static
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/city-land-audit-public1

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
CSVpreserved111490218d3e2ee695de20933651193ab14cef327c2a07a7f5f70b56cc4a9244a100f8asource
GeoJSONpreserved4321044875bde50105142208453a7f8222fdb8e8ce178cac6a857541bf6cb5bb17dc4e6source
HTMLreferenced——source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved1057120edecf66bc6883e568bf18b3afcf9ea80e71cec3c9a2c140b70304e86d7a51e63source
SHPreferenced——source
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
OID_text
Parceltext
Addresstext
Ownertext
Care_and_Custodytext
Prop_NAMEtext
GlobalIDtext
User_Agencytext
Lot_Size_SFtext
Shape_Lengthtext
Shape_Areatext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/2bc76fc4ca30483954aa8980f834dd74/city-land-audit-public1-columns.json — 1086 bytes, SHA-256 2bc76fc4ca304839…, 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 City Land Audit (Public), 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 City Land Audit (Public) 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 City Land Audit (Public)?

12 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 City Land Audit (Public)?

Yes, for 3 of 8 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 City Land Audit (Public), and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of City Land Audit (Public) 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:city-land-audit-public1
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-land-audit-public1
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-land-audit-public1.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
city-land-audit-public1
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 12-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/2bc76fc4ca30483954aa8980f834dd74/city-land-audit-public1-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