Dataset
City of Boston Outline Boundary (Water Included)
Boston MA city boundary including water features.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 21
- Keywords
- city boundary, geography, open data
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-included
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 | 4276 | 218257d597408e32a60c3023e0bd4aa935ff7ae7ad9cc4b5f69431ba35b6b313 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 674778 | 5df4c59b72a7b96f2655fd726ae62533c5e4ba655dff78a2e4a975cd9510d0a3 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 176066 | 79ac8c0330fdd62ab98ccb32bfca0729897779b8776da12e0b072563a9555120 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
OBJECTID_1 | text | |
TOWNS_ID | text | |
TOWN_ID | text | |
TOWN | text | |
FIPS_STCO | text | |
CCD_MCD | text | |
FIPS_PLACE | text | |
POP1980 | text | |
POP1990 | text | |
POP2000 | text | |
POPCH80_90 | text | |
POPCH90_00 | text | |
FOURCOLOR | text | |
TYPE | text | |
ISLAND | text | |
FIPS_MCD | text | |
FIPS_COUNT | text | |
test | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-included
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-included
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-outline-boundary-water-included.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-included
- 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 |