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park · official boundary

Holborn Street Playlot

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 6 Holborn Street.

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.

Filed by this archive as
park
Authority
City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within
Boston
Area
490 square meters
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/f5747c41be2cdbca1f783cd39b18fc45/holborn-street-playlot.geojson — 849 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Holborn Street Playlot, 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 490 square meters.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/f7cef8322a9492ac0c26fe4c4bb1c255/holborn-street-playlot.svg — 1442 bytes, SHA-256 f7cef8322a9492ac… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/f5747c41be2cdbca1f783cd39b18fc45/holborn-street-playlot.geojson (application/geo+json, 849 bytes, SHA-256 f5747c41be2cdbca…). 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 Holborn Street Playlot, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Holborn Street Playlot is recorded as 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 Holborn Street Playlot?

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 Holborn Street Playlot?

490 square meters, 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 Holborn Street Playlot 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/f7cef8322a9492ac0c26fe4c4bb1c255/holborn-street-playlot.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/f5747c41be2cdbca1f783cd39b18fc45/holborn-street-playlot.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest f7cef8322a9492ac0c26fe4c4bb1c25594c5fa3e11aca9cfbfa2c1f482e714b9.

What does the archive hold for Holborn Street Playlot, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Holborn Street Playlot 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:holborn-street-playlot
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/holborn-street-playlot
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/holborn-street-playlot.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 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
322
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/f5747c41be2cdbca1f783cd39b18fc45/holborn-street-playlot.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/f7cef8322a9492ac0c26fe4c4bb1c255/holborn-street-playlot.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0