district · official boundary
West Roxbury
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.
- Filed by this archive as
- district
- Authority
- City of Boston Main Streets
- Within
- Boston
- Area
- 49.43 hectares
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/b867d9486fef9b30ecb1fe641b8ababf/west-roxbury-2.geojson— 10029 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/cf60aa86b4b76e1d09c109f10652ee47/west-roxbury-2.svg — 4358 bytes, SHA-256 cf60aa86b4b76e1d… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/b867d9486fef9b30ecb1fe641b8ababf/west-roxbury-2.geojson (application/geo+json, 10029 bytes, SHA-256 b867d9486fef9b30…). 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 West Roxbury, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
West Roxbury is recorded as a district, 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 West Roxbury?
City of Boston Main Streets 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 West Roxbury?
49.43 hectares, 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 West Roxbury 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/cf60aa86b4b76e1d09c109f10652ee47/west-roxbury-2.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/b867d9486fef9b30ecb1fe641b8ababf/west-roxbury-2.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest cf60aa86b4b76e1d09c109f10652ee470c19bb0f7db89b8d5170515f637ac618.
What does the wider world call West Roxbury?
It asserts none, deliberately. 2 candidates were considered and not asserted: Q2516663 (declined) — Rejected by adjudication (POL-2): this record is the City of Boston's West Roxbury Main Streets district, and /place/west-roxbury is the West Roxbury neighborhood; West_Roxbury (declined) — Rejected by adjudication (POL-2): this record is the City of Boston's West Roxbury Main Streets district, and /place/west-roxbury is the West Roxbury neighborhood. A wrong sameAs is worse than none: under OWL semantics it instructs a consumer to merge two things into one, so the archive asserts an identity only where it can defend it and publishes the refusal where it cannot. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger at /reconciliation.
Attested by: Q2516663 — Q2516663 — label "West Roxbury", classed as neighborhood in Boston, decided 13 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0. West_Roxbury — schema:about Q2516663 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia, decided 13 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0
What does the archive hold for West Roxbury, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of West Roxbury 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.
Candidates the archive declined
Identities that were considered and not asserted. They are published here rather than merely filed, because a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked. A candidate is DECLINED where the archive weighed it and refused it, and HELD where the archive asserts it nowhere on this record — most often because it is asserted on the archive's principal record for the same place, and asserting it twice would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart. Each row states which, in its own words. A wrong sameAs is worse than none. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger.
- Wikidata —
Q2516663· declinedMatched against: Q2516663 — label "West Roxbury", classed as neighborhood in BostonWhy: Rejected by adjudication (POL-2): this record is the City of Boston's West Roxbury Main Streets district, and /place/west-roxbury is the West Roxbury neighborhood. The district's boundary encloses 494,225 square meters, 100.00% of it inside the neighborhood's 14,230,454 square meters, and the two overlap at IoU 0.0347, far below the 0.95 at which the archive holds two boundaries to be one place. The identifier names the neighborhood, and is asserted on /place/west-roxbury.Method: label-type-geography (proximity) · Decided 13 September 2026 - English Wikipedia —
West_Roxbury· declinedMatched against: schema:about Q2516663 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipediaWhy: Rejected by adjudication (POL-2): this record is the City of Boston's West Roxbury Main Streets district, and /place/west-roxbury is the West Roxbury neighborhood. The district's boundary encloses 494,225 square meters, 100.00% of it inside the neighborhood's 14,230,454 square meters, and the two overlap at IoU 0.0347, far below the 0.95 at which the archive holds two boundaries to be one place. The identifier names the neighborhood, and is asserted on /place/west-roxbury.Method: wikidata-sitelink · Decided 13 September 2026
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
- 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
- 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 |
| 4 | externalize-boundary | The boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/b867d9486fef9b30ecb1fe641b8ababf/west-roxbury-2.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/cf60aa86b4b76e1d09c109f10652ee47/west-roxbury-2.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |