The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Parcels (2005)

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Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
9
Keywords
static
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/parcels-20051

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 APIreferencedsource
CSVreferenced31179862cdb7b6735450d3df6869be3664e0aec089f2e99169d7ff3f8775e168c104311fsource
GeoJSONreferenced2117342620ffeba692dc64ffd7faf97ea061d52032351de897752320a07138bc8bfc43c8source
HTMLreferencedsource
HTMLreferencedsource
KMLreferenced21213652e9fae99555e0400734830abf973efe95008a03329a768d1b8b3e1b13fe429948source
SHPreferencedsource
ZIPreferencedsource

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
WARDtext
PARCELtext
PID_LONGtext
WPDtext
BATCHtext
Shape_Lengthtext
Shape_Areatext
shape_wkttext

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:parcels-20051
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-20051
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-20051.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
parcels-20051
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 catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0