The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Snow Emergency Parking

Snow emergency parking locations. Updated by City of Boston in January 2019. These locations include both private garages and municipal lots

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
18
Keywords
Boston, Discounted Parking, Parking ban, Snow Parking, analyze, ckan, open, parking, snow
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/snow-emergency-parking

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
CSVpreserved186422b44008b2842cb04968726a20f2e29679aa4b93b1d3e08d2c482e2b259d9362dsource
GeoJSONpreserved356309cf2206d47a1dae3e10d3d66f98ae45a996e76c230fe2d73dcb4cec563b79160source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved119276cecb94b52b9ef8afba96ca81fc9423caa168ae6d774433566865721a7778199source
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
OBJECTID_1text
Spacestext
Feetext
Commentstext
Phonetext
Nametext
Addresstext
Neighborhotext
Maxspacestext
Hourstext
GlobalIDtext
CreationDatetext
Creatortext
EditDatetext
Editortext
shape_wkttext
POINT_Xtext
POINT_Ytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/e02d8ede88d64f3fec7865e81c564c79/snow-emergency-parking-columns.json — 1363 bytes, SHA-256 e02d8ede88d64f3f…, 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 Snow Emergency Parking, 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 Snow Emergency Parking 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 Snow Emergency Parking?

18 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 Snow Emergency Parking?

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 Snow Emergency Parking, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Snow Emergency Parking 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:snow-emergency-parking
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/snow-emergency-parking
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/snow-emergency-parking.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
snow-emergency-parking
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 18-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/e02d8ede88d64f3fec7865e81c564c79/snow-emergency-parking-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