Dataset
Parcels (2007)
<div><font face='Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next, Avenir, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif'><span style='font-size:16px;'>This layer contains the 2007 parcel outlines in the City of Boston. Shared publicly</span></font></div><div><br /></div>
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 9
- Keywords
- static
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/parcels-20071
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 | 31090639 | f471163b93112f095af2b06f1e29f26dd142f17ea2b3a086c2bc24ad049b195d | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 20818705 | daaf2c248b33970270c001dda2bcf7e2f7621e0ce0e995087d3352b81c984b44 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 20876983 | 4fa99a131bde73e6cd6ae67a28e2942b16a7349820092150050102a07e507d8d | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
| ZIP | 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 |
|---|---|---|
OID_ | text | |
WARD | text | |
PARCEL | text | |
PID_LONG | text | |
WPD | text | |
BATCH | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:parcels-20071
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-20071
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-20071.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-20071
- 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 |