The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Wicked Free WiFi Locations

Wicked Free WiFi locations around the City of Boston as determined by the Meraki API.

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
17
Keywords
wicked, wifi
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/wicked-free-wifi-locations

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
CSVpreserved787497f92f921f6593028e5996b3d8663c00a8e6cb13336ddc7782dd58aa3a1595b44source
GeoJSONpreserved197333ea434424092161540d030aca1c5a815b074e9496a833ef06fa2203591b4af95asource
KMLpreserved29650d0e4e30e7bf865779eb7c1f69769d342fd546c032710b1357ea3432a27b92c93source
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
neighborhood_idtext
neighborhood_nametext
device_serialtext
device_connectedtotext
device_addresstext
device_lattext
device_longtext
device_tagstext
etl_updatedtimestamptext
is_currenttext
org1text
org2text
inside_outsidetext
landmarktext
shape_wkttext
POINT_Xtext
POINT_Ytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/d279a8dad53328ff97a485ee9349f339/wicked-free-wifi-locations-columns.json — 1393 bytes, SHA-256 d279a8dad53328ff…, 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 Wicked Free WiFi Locations, 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 Wicked Free WiFi Locations 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 Wicked Free WiFi Locations?

17 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 Wicked Free WiFi Locations?

Yes, for 3 of 5 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 Wicked Free WiFi Locations, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Wicked Free WiFi Locations 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:wicked-free-wifi-locations
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/wicked-free-wifi-locations
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/wicked-free-wifi-locations.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
wicked-free-wifi-locations
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 17-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/d279a8dad53328ff97a485ee9349f339/wicked-free-wifi-locations-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