Mary Soo Hoo Park

The Boston Archive

park · official boundary

Mary Soo Hoo Park

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 2 Hudson St.

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: 804 square meters
Boundary: held as GeoJSON at /asset/9ac5df66c4ea5a8a0b4919c205e72a83/mary-soo-hoo-park.geojson — 1360 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Mary Soo Hoo Park, 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 804 square meters. — Rendered by the archive, served as `image/svg+xml` at `/asset/e1aaa10793bd86160e611492e6993449/mary-soo-hoo-park.svg` — 1572 bytes, SHA-256 `e1aaa10793bd8616`… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as `/asset/9ac5df66c4ea5a8a0b4919c205e72a83/mary-soo-hoo-park.geojson` (`application/geo+json`, 1360 bytes, SHA-256 `9ac5df66c4ea5a8a`…). 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 Mary Soo Hoo Park, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Mary Soo Hoo Park 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 Mary Soo Hoo Park?

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 Mary Soo Hoo Park?

804 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 Mary Soo Hoo Park 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/e1aaa10793bd86160e611492e6993449/mary-soo-hoo-park.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/9ac5df66c4ea5a8a0b4919c205e72a83/mary-soo-hoo-park.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest e1aaa10793bd86160e611492e6993449954c2cfe982dfe9fb8505cdcdff096ef.

What else does the world call Mary Soo Hoo Park?

The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q118466106). Each identity carries the method that produced it, and any candidate the archive did not assert is published in the reconciliation ledger rather than left absent.

Attested by: Q118466106 — Q118466106 — label "Mary Soo Hoo Park", classed as park, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0

What does the archive hold for Mary Soo Hoo Park, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Mary Soo Hoo Park 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.

This record, elsewhere

Identities the archive asserts, each named with the method that produced it. Candidates the archive did not assert here are held in the reconciliation ledger and are shown below, under candidates the archive declined, and in the reconciliation ledger. Each method is stated in full — the procedure, the value it was compared against, and the date it was decided — in this record's machine rendering.

Wikidata — Q118466106Method: label-type-geography (point inside the boundary) · Matched against: Q118466106 — label "Mary Soo Hoo Park", classed as park · Decided 3 September 2026

Related records

located in — Boston

Identity

Identifier: urn:lemay:boston:entity:mary-soo-hoo-park
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/place/mary-soo-hoo-park
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/place/mary-soo-hoo-park.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: 185
Attribution: City of Boston
Rights as stated: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#	Operation	Description	Tool
1	`fetch`	retrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portal	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
2	`normalize`	the source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archive	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
3	`reproject`	the source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinates	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
4	`externalize-boundary`	The boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/9ac5df66c4ea5a8a0b4919c205e72a83/mary-soo-hoo-park.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/e1aaa10793bd86160e611492e6993449/mary-soo-hoo-park.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`