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park · official boundary

Chittick Playground

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 154-156 Ruskindale Rd.

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 154-156 Ruskindale Rd.

Place

official layer

An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.

Type
park
Authority
City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within
Boston
Area
1987 square metres
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/chittick-playground.geojson — 813 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Chittick Playground, a park in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It encloses approximately 1987 square metres.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/chittick-playground.svg — 1424 bytes, SHA-256 93db3db1f558c85c… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/chittick-playground.geojson (application/geo+json, 813 bytes, SHA-256 ef7704a1a24d9f8d…). The map is simplified for drawing; the boundary is not.

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.

Where is Chittick Playground, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Chittick Playground is a park within Boston. The archive holds its boundary on the official layer: promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it.

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.

Who drew the boundary of Chittick Playground?

City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department promulgated it. A boundary with no promulgating authority is an assertion rather than a fact, and this archive files those separately, as claims.

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 Chittick Playground?

1987 square metres, computed from the boundary the archive holds and not quoted from elsewhere.

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's map of Chittick Playground show?

A static map of the boundary, rendered by the archive on a server and never in a reader's browser, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/chittick-playground.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/chittick-playground.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 93db3db1f558c85c477a0305de7ab6aa2e9e596e0f81ee7e218597e8e54bd64f.

What does the archive hold for Chittick Playground, and under what licence?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Chittick Playground 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). 4 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.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:chittick-playground
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/chittick-playground
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/chittick-playground.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
559
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portalarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizethe source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archivearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3reprojectthe source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinatesarchive-ingest 0.1.0
4externalize-boundaryThe boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/chittick-playground.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/chittick-playground.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0