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
“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.
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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
- 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |