Dataset
Hydrography (Line)
Water body features within the City of Boston.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 4
- Keywords
- analyze, boston, bostonmaps, ckan, hydro, hydrography, line, open, public, water
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/hydrography-line
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 | 271177 | 5bd71a9a024d063a528c417909deeebf95616ee8082b4f61e53601aeac7b01db | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 1075300 | 26abc8f12f40ceb7bf0b18dcceaf8e7f57b256f6a3477e3ffe1763636842df14 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 242812 | 21421b04d28e1c8aba7b8ad125c882d15bc2a5b5bfbc7a947f27baee74b9b2c9 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
TYPE | text | |
NAME | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:hydrography-line
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/hydrography-line
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/hydrography-line.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
- hydrography-line
- 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 |