The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Existing Bike Network (2023)

This dataset contains an inventory of existing bicycle facilities within the City of Boston. It is intended for information…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
11
Keywords
bike network, btd, static
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/existing-bike-network-20231

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
CSVpreserved844521127db39d3fe01c9fd12119839f331c9c9ad7e1efb8d6cdd05f5974f94a45426asource
GeoJSONpreserved2341989bf998ea4c5cee1627f4e05313111ddf3ad08bed4de9987b7e9405acd77923f27source
HTMLreferenced——source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved496180f876cdcf3cbb1321679544bc3558bcc2fa892a6c92cdbbec1c2a3f19e560b040source
PDFreferenced56488—source
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
STREET_NAMtext
ROADINVENTtext
FUNCTIONALtext
JURISDICTItext
Dividedtext
InstallDattext
ExisFaciltext
Shape_Lengtext
Shape_Lengthtext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/2883485c5596392343c9a089aca12cec/existing-bike-network-20231-columns.json — 1048 bytes, SHA-256 2883485c55963923…, 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 Existing Bike Network (2023), 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 Existing Bike Network (2023) 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 Existing Bike Network (2023)?

11 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 Existing Bike Network (2023)?

Yes, for 3 of 9 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 Existing Bike Network (2023), and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Existing Bike Network (2023) 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:existing-bike-network-20231
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/existing-bike-network-20231
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/existing-bike-network-20231.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
existing-bike-network-20231
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 11-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/2883485c5596392343c9a089aca12cec/existing-bike-network-20231-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