Dataset
TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square
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Dataset
- Publisher
- Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Keywords
- MONUM, New Urban Mechanics, canopy, tree inventory, trees
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/treetect-likely-tree-locations-in-nubian-square
Artifacts
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Questions this record answers
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Who publishes TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square, and under what license?
Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics 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 TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square 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.
Can the archive hand back the bytes of TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square?
Yes, for 3 of 17 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 TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square 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). 2 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:treetect-likely-tree-locations-in-nubian-square
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/treetect-likely-tree-locations-in-nubian-square
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/treetect-likely-tree-locations-in-nubian-square.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
- treetect-likely-tree-locations-in-nubian-square
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
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| 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 catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |