Dataset
Wards (pre 2022)
Boston Wards before 2022
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 6
- Keywords
- analyze, boston, bostonmaps, ckan, open, public, static, wards
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/wards-pre-2022
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 | 1065 | aab4726acdec65d5c9c9f959ab04fce0a88398551e3af8895419660fb88ea0c8 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 221735 | 28b1189a6ebb644224c05ff68a668233679ed1232352315319849f4a12dfe98b | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 60341 | 50c2ea2a7f0f8037ead6559d93c6a700237b69e57585a9bb2eb95c4609b7e283 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
| ZIP | referenced | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|
OID_ | text | |
WARD | text | |
CNT_WARD | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:wards-pre-2022
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/wards-pre-2022
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/wards-pre-2022.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
- wards-pre-2022
- 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 |