Dataset
City of Boston Outline Boundary (Water Excluded)
City of Boston boundary that excludes water.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 6
- Keywords
- boston, bostonmaps, boundary, ckan, hubhacks, open, public
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-excluded
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 | 121 | 398995702da15e1dc88e54fd780abf73653c1d92a832d2a670c94721cdda42e5 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 2337903 | 899b239ddf19dac70ea28f4fa67906e49ab7abc2eb3961db020f55eb9877319f | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 588554 | 1162839260875e7d24ec60a65e5c42dd8c29415c2295359171258d94d84dd217 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
BOSTON_LAN | text | |
CITY | text | |
COUNTY | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-excluded
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-excluded
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-excluded.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
- city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-excluded
- 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 |