Dataset
Boston Buildings with Roof Breaks
<font face='Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next, Avenir, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif'><span style='font-size:16px;'>This dataset represents building roof outlines for all buildings in Boston. This dataset was created initially from a flyover in 2011 and is updated periodically based on…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 12
- Keywords
- buildings, footprints, roofbreaks
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-buildings-with-roof-breaks
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 24426083 | 75f1e77c8da8cbb4f204044b79405e4caa2dfabef87df2d793384296ca9a9b8c | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 33394328 | cd2c784d7d8e760f5f21ea5f6132d3ddbeb5fcdf2f1361b49f5ead0419e62fd0 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 42733896 | 424442b0ae546ebc4ee6e11042e9c7edc52dc3a1e2c4ec619a3ff80d588fbd5a | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
PART_USE | text | |
PART_BRA_U | text | |
GRND_ELEV_2010 | text | |
ROOF_ELEV_2010 | text | |
BLDG_HGT_2010 | text | |
IEL_TYPE | text | |
Land_Use | text | |
BRA_Land_Use | text | |
Added | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:boston-buildings-with-roof-breaks
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-buildings-with-roof-breaks
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-buildings-with-roof-breaks.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
- boston-buildings-with-roof-breaks
- 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 metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |