Dataset
Moving Truck Permits
This dataset is a daily export of all moving truck permits issued by the city. Both the raw data and the interactive map are updated daily with the latest available data. Please note that not all permit locations in the raw data can be geocoded automatically, and these permits are therefore not…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Public Works Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 20
- Keywords
- moving, parking, permits
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/moving-truck-permits
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 48993927 | 51fe77999ccdda6032f32cf37e357b3db9365622ce96c3ee7398a5e3ba260e2e | source |
| HTML | 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 |
|---|---|---|
permit_number | text | |
work_type | text | |
permit_type_descr | text | |
description | text | |
comments | text | |
application_method | text | |
applicant_city | text | |
applicant_state | text | |
applicant_zip | text | |
is_contractor | text | |
total_fees | text | |
issued_date | text | |
expiration_date | text | |
status | text | |
occupancy_type | text | |
city | text | |
state | text | |
zip | text | |
lat | text | |
long | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:moving-truck-permits
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/moving-truck-permits
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/moving-truck-permits.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
- moving-truck-permits
- 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 |