Dataset
Police Districts
Authoritative police districts dataset for the City of Boston.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 8
- Keywords
- boston, bostonmaps, bpd, ckan, districts, open, police
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/police-districts
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 | 901 | 256696955bed715dfa320dfc9e808bfd3d38632c106f51a1855b70572b3f1213 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 1612990 | 913f18dbf0a10cce361eb3dfb78fdc2e8b2138c7e7445c58274f9fc09a2cffc8 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 419553 | 23169934d92481e74803352a1b253de9eb77a58c77103b4eda9558bc1a58b802 | source |
| SHP | 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 |
|---|---|---|
DISTRICT | text | |
ID | text | |
BPDGIS_GIS | text | |
DISTRICT_ | text | |
DISTRICT__ | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:police-districts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/police-districts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/police-districts.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
- police-districts
- 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 |