Dataset
Sidewalk Inventory
City of Boston sidewalk inventory data. Completed by the Boston Public Works Department (PWD) in 2014.<div><div><a href='https://drive.google.com/a/boston.gov/file/d/0B5xorwVOSRdXbGxHMHlabHlVM3c/view' target='_blank'>Sidewalk Inventory</a> data dictionary. <br /></div></div>
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 30
- Keywords
- 2014, boston, bostonmaps, bparc, ckan, inventory, public, pwd, sidewalk, works
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/sidewalk-inventory
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 | 5635125 | 41a45d84eb54c92175334df6687f0627ba9bcff6f0187b7adbcb3e9358ec276e | source |
| GeoJSON | unavailable | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 20581943 | 8a0300464e466f29b4fd1f714021d508aeecfbb8df7f8cac501beba91b28b5bb | source |
| SHP | referenced | 20680813 | 005019a6c7317e67bd9cbe5ac872abf05a6b71f2c149406be504375831b42d16 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
SWK_ID | text | |
new_insp_d | text | |
INSP | text | |
MATERIAL | text | |
SWK_WIDTH | text | |
SWK_SLOPE | text | |
DAM_LENGTH | text | |
DAM_WIDTH | text | |
SCI | text | |
curb_type | text | |
CURB_REV | text | |
areaway | text | |
NOTES | text | |
add_note | text | |
INSP_DATE | text | |
DAM_AREA | text | |
RCR | text | |
UTIL | text | |
SURVEY | text | |
DISTRICT | text | |
SWK_AREA | text | |
PARENT | text | |
Snow_Route | text | |
SEG_ID | text | |
SIDE | text | |
ROUTE | text | |
inspected | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:sidewalk-inventory
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/sidewalk-inventory
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/sidewalk-inventory.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
- sidewalk-inventory
- 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 |