The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved

Wireless small cell antenna /DAS applications that have been approved by the City of Boston since 1/1/2017. This data is updated daily at 12:57pm. This data should be combined with the DAS/small cell application approved prior to 1/1/2017 to get a complete profile of all installations in the City.

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
17
Keywords
Approved, Installation, Requests, Wireless Antenna
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved

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
CSVpreserved505507c108d0c7b174c3633512a13983e047be8346aa3a2eb3531ef51f261aa1e79714source
GeoJSONpreserved10903853f59bf002bdc14ef192786f4d2023d45fbba2d98e3baf7b358b2d9d288b7c7b3source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved1478954b882337247f1adc8b5824c4fb717ac5f4ac0b25940b29a5da5d1a669e82e3a4source
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
Vendortext
Neighborhoodtext
Addresstext
Lattext
Longtext
Planned_Install_Datetext
Original_Pole_Typetext
Attachment_Or_Replacementtext
New_Pole_Typetext
Pole_Identifying_Numbertext
Intended_Commercial_Usetext
Spectrumtext
City_Referencetext
Requester_Email_Addresstext
shape_wkttext
POINT_Xtext
POINT_Ytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/11f0579bec04c4e803e74a7343435f10/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved-columns.json — 1486 bytes, SHA-256 11f0579bec04c4e8…, 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 Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved, 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 Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved 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 Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved?

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 Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved?

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 Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved 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:wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved.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
wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
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/11f0579bec04c4e803e74a7343435f10/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved-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