The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD)

The City of Boston adopted a Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD), zoning Article 32, in sections of the City to protect wood pile foundations of buildings from being damaged by lowered groundwater levels. For more information, visit <a…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
5
Keywords
BPDA, GCOD, zoning
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod

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
CSVpreserved6351a5c9f72163e4f81a88be937d449d3472bfdc6c1e22aed3ebdc0c0c8880ed84asource
GeoJSONpreserved85131a3427aed0e282e1c542bebb15332104b897017910332ee018a20508a4274da2esource
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved26416cb66a9a5b2d4434fa9352fa7fc879e35a2c43a6ffc4ab7a715689a8f491e1098source
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
Adoptedtext
Typetext
Shape_Lengthtext
Shape_Areatext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/68a9ad9eed5921b0d79ec41693a41985/zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod-columns.json — 816 bytes, SHA-256 68a9ad9eed5921b0…, 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 Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD), 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 Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD) 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 Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD)?

5 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 Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD)?

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 Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD), and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston Zoning Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD) 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:zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod.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
zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod
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 5-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/68a9ad9eed5921b0d79ec41693a41985/zoning-groundwater-conservation-overlay-district-gcod-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