The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Snow Emergency Routes

City of Boston Public Works Department (PWD) snow emergency route/snow emergency no parking.

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
4
Keywords
analyze, boston, ckan, open, snow emergency, snow routes
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/snow-emergency-routes

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
CSVpreserved1205656262a286310cc47a10f1dcc8134cae06aedc954ef0dddd00d0fa7e69ac813117source
GeoJSONpreserved1031216b70b3975470c0c923f3445d23a1ca94d8df74616e4576b478f3451062869aff8source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved26368554c3f6036d13feda3bc766d263f1fa29927f124248566e71c20edc1098bb3562source
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
FULL_NAMEtext
Responsibilitytext
Shape_Lengthtext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/617e858281a43da11eda0c90b479b8d4/snow-emergency-routes-columns.json — 670 bytes, SHA-256 617e858281a43da1…, 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 Routes, 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 Routes 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 Routes?

4 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 Routes?

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 Routes, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Snow Emergency Routes 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-routes
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/snow-emergency-routes
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/snow-emergency-routes.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-routes
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 4-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/617e858281a43da11eda0c90b479b8d4/snow-emergency-routes-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