Parcels (2016)

Q: Who publishes Parcels (2016), and under what license?

Boston Maps 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.

Q: What does Parcels (2016) cover?

In space, Boston, Massachusetts.

Q: How large is Parcels (2016)?

63 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Q: Can the archive hand back the bytes of Parcels (2016)?

Yes, for 3 of 8 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Q: What does the archive hold for Parcels (2016), and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Parcels (2016) from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Parcels (2016)

City of Boston's parcel data created by the Assessing department in 2016. This data combines 2016 geometry data with 2016 ownership data. Data Key <a…

Dataset

Publisher: Boston Maps
Spatial coverage: Boston, Massachusetts
Fields: 63
Keywords: 2016, assessing, boston, ckan, data, full, lite, parcels, static
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/parcels-20161

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	unavailable	—	`—`	source
GeoJSON	preserved	32967590	`41ddc3315b410b86aeb678af2a0d08578c95f434fde40e621ee3c2f5312156e3`	source
HTML	referenced	—	`—`	source
HTML	referenced	—	`—`	source
KML	preserved	37302981	`70fd1241c78da2d3f6cb128e76b4fc33d38054a79b9849c606a302750b910aeb`	source
SHP	referenced	—	`—`	source
ZIP	preserved	25192736	`c3afc9e90556ff07a177baee0bbd77326f79dc80b79895cd24bb1d44ab098f7f`	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
`OBJECTID`	text
`PID_LONG`	text
`YEAR`	text
`PID`	text
`CM_ID`	text
`ST_NUM`	text
`ST_NAME`	text
`ST_NAME_SUF`	text
`UNIT_NUM`	text
`ZIPCODE`	text
`PTYPE`	text
`LU`	text
`OWN_OCC`	text
`OWNER`	text
`MAIL_ADDRESS`	text
`MAIL_CS`	text
`MAIL_ZIPCODE`	text
`AV_LAND`	text
`AV_BLDG`	text
`AV_TOTAL`	text
`GROSS_TAX`	text
`LAND_SF`	text
`YR_BUILT`	text
`YR_REMOD`	text
`GROSS_AREA`	text
`LIVING_AREA`	text
`NUM_FLOORS`	text
`STRUCTURE_CLASS`	text
`R_BLDG_STYL`	text
`R_ROOF_TYP`	text
`R_EXT_FIN`	text
`R_TOTAL_RMS`	text
`R_BDRMS`	text
`R_FULL_BTH`	text
`R_HALF_BTH`	text
`R_KITCH`	text
`R_AC`	text
`R_FPLACE`	text
`S_NUM_BLDG`	text
`S_BLDG_STYL`	text
`S_UNIT_RES`	text
`S_UNIT_COM`	text
`S_UNIT_RC`	text
`S_EXT_FIN`	text
`U_BASE_FLOOR`	text
`U_NUM_PARK`	text
`U_CORNER`	text
`U_ORIENT`	text

48 of 63 columns are shown here. The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/3d3eeaf2074a5697e488137b8f23ab13/parcels-20161-columns.json — 3700 bytes, SHA-256 3d3eeaf2074a5697…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

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Who publishes Parcels (2016), and under what license?

Boston Maps 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.