The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Park_Features

The Boston Parks and Recreation Department tracks a select group of park features as part of its asset inventorying efforts. This dataset contains information on the type of park feature, location, and relevant age categories. <p style='line-height:1.38; margin-bottom:0pt;…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
13
Keywords
BPRD, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, Park Features, Parks Assets, athletics, ballfields, baseball, basketball, bocce, dog park, drinking fountains, features, fields, football, fountains, futsal, handball, netball, parks, pickleball, playground, playgrounds, pump track, restroom, shade structure, skateboarding, soccer, tennis
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/park-features

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 APIreferenced——source
CSVpreserved30850549cfac12b6b53187eda008edee751229d2b8f75fba059cd770dc81a17974e2dcsource
GeoJSONpreserved847513906f17926d93c5b8aa4946e9c317ab884f49aaaf50d92844db4a194b3250ba46source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved70031758b7c4bd145055e8278faf5b3abb276f2b1b7a981212ee18074db245913c5a6source
SHPreferenced——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.

ColumnTypeDescription
Park_Nametext
Play_Nametext
Neighbortext
OS_IDtext
Assettext
asset_detatext
Asset_use1text
Asset_use2text
Asset_use3text
Agetext
shape_wkttext
POINT_Xtext
POINT_Ytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/8c961f662224dac9857aa80d66b9bded/park-features-columns.json — 1092 bytes, SHA-256 8c961f662224dac9…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Park_Features, 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does Park_Features cover?

In space, Boston, Massachusetts.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Park_Features?

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

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of Park_Features?

Yes, for 3 of 6 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for Park_Features, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Park_Features 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:park-features
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/park-features
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/park-features.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
park-features
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 catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 13-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/8c961f662224dac9857aa80d66b9bded/park-features-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0