district · official boundary
West Roxbury
A Main Streets commercial district as bounded by the City of Boston.
A Main Streets commercial district as bounded by the City of Boston.
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
- district
- Authority
- City of Boston Main Streets
- Within
- Boston
- Area
- 0.49 km²
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON — see the JSON rendering
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:west-roxbury-2
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/west-roxbury-2
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/west-roxbury-2.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
- 17
- 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 |