Dataset
Parcels (2021)
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Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 19
- Keywords
- static
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/parcels-2021
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 | 45921926 | 14ee2fe51f368eeaa694d55476c53c25b5309f80b2fd2b12ba952b16c61ca691 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 29883184 | 8ca11ea72e3f7b601ef2b27f69617624523529591818e986668a9ac57ac36f11 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 28725544 | 8d137d50e55af6c9ea3a6f82ee36480a8da7423e479d45b9bf1410bd8f5f8623 | 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 | |
OBJECTID | text | |
MAP_PAR_ID | text | |
LOC_ID | text | |
POLY_TYPE | text | |
MAP_NO | text | |
SOURCE | text | |
PLAN_ID | text | |
LAST_EDIT | text | |
BND_CHK | text | |
NO_MATCH | text | |
TOWN_ID | text | |
Shape_STAr | text | |
Shape_STLe | text | |
Shape_ST_1 | text | |
Shape_ST_2 | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:parcels-2021
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-2021
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-2021.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-2021
- 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 |