My Neighborhood Dataset

The Boston Archive

Dataset

My Neighborhood Dataset

Using the [My Neighborhood](https://www.boston.gov/my-neighborhood) tool on Boston.gov, residents can search an address and find city resources closest to them, including City Councilor information, the nearest public library and park, early voting information, and more. This is the underlying…

Dataset

Publisher: DoIT Data & Analytics
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 51
Keywords: address, city council, city services, neighborhood, parks, representation, resource, voting
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/my-neighborhood-dataset

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	unavailable	477466108	`—`	source
XLSX	preserved	53705	`f2af981e926966c7a5a0e0df66d5d6b875b86d877b9a30eaa67ab280c1a95e3f`	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
`sam_address_id`	text
`full_address`	text
`geom_2249`	text
`city_council_district`	text
`city_council_councilor`	text
`city_council_image`	text
`city_council_webpage`	text
`ons_liaison_ons`	text
`ons_liaison_name`	text
`ons_liaison_pic_url`	text
`ons_liaison_neighborhood`	text
`ons_liaison_webpage`	text
`public_libraries_branch`	text
`public_libraries_address`	text
`public_libraries_district`	text
`public_libraries_zipcode`	text
`community_centers_name`	text
`community_centers_address`	text
`bcyf_pool_centers_name`	text
`bcyf_pool_centers_address`	text
`fire_dept_name`	text
`fire_dept_address`	text
`fire_dept_neighborhood`	text
`parks_name`	text
`parks_ownership`	text
`parks_district`	text
`parks_type`	text
`police_dept_police_station`	text
`police_dept_address`	text
`police_dept_neighborhood`	text
`police_dept_zip`	text
`police_district`	text
`ward_name`	text
`precincts_name`	text
`early_voting_location`	text
`early_voting_address`	text
`early_voting_neighborhood`	text
`early_voting_date_and_time`	text
`snow_parking_lots_name`	text
`snow_parking_lots_address`	text
`snow_parking_lots_fee`	text
`snow_parking_lots_comments`	text
`snow_routes_name`	text
`snow_routes_responsibility`	text
`tot_sprays_address`	text
`tot_sprays_name`	text
`historic_districts_name`	text
`historic_districts_place_name`	text

48 of 51 columns are shown here. The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/6337bf5482ed039d23b52a1938bd1a44/my-neighborhood-dataset-columns.json — 3675 bytes, SHA-256 6337bf5482ed039d…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

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Who publishes My Neighborhood Dataset, and under what license?

DoIT Data & Analytics 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.