The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations

Locations within the City of Boston of all small cell antenna/DAS approved by the City prior to 01/01/2017

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
18
Keywords
2017, Approved, Boston, DAS, Small Cell, static
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/das-small-cell-approved-locations

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
CSVpreserved140521684f101b55506629b88c2ec0cdd6cac01780d66d7aeab79f15aea6f1d91e2204source
GeoJSONpreserved30628917630366e934ac33619cdfbcdb547155a678285973e4a1222945ac0b5c661c62source
HTMLreferenced——source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved427770b669a6b8068620ee51cb9b2e38e381c9bbb78acb3e825dbf786e9bdacfd26d9source
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
activationtext
attachmenttext
existing_ptext
fid_text
installatitext
intended_ctext
latitudetext
longitudetext
other_infrtext
pole_idtext
replacementext
spectrumtext
street_addtext
vendortext
shape_wkttext
POINT_Xtext
POINT_Ytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/f333b8aa1384ebd3e7e75a3494923d61/das-small-cell-approved-locations-columns.json — 1414 bytes, SHA-256 f333b8aa1384ebd3…, 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 DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations, 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 DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations 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 DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations?

18 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 DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations?

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 DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations 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:das-small-cell-approved-locations
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/das-small-cell-approved-locations
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/das-small-cell-approved-locations.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
das-small-cell-approved-locations
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 18-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/f333b8aa1384ebd3e7e75a3494923d61/das-small-cell-approved-locations-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