Dataset
Hospitals
A dataset published by Boston Maps on the City of Boston open-data portal.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 17
- Keywords
- boston, bostonmaps, ckan, hospitals, oem, open, tpl
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/hospitals
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 | 7682 | 99ff1c9e9ff8eebebfbe33f13f5690fd1867b27eb6341b825b3a5c43f6d5160f | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 16833 | e80e82ca5adeb5e5bddda78c9e68b581220b09e32f9aed62b97555de823903f0 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 7326 | ecf3e35f8a4ad8b38948e612a3ba60ff8431072c7183bb22406eb05e1aacba2c | 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 |
|---|---|---|
Census_Tra | text | |
Name | text | |
Address | text | |
City | text | |
Zipcode | text | |
Statea | text | |
Contact | text | |
PhoneNumbe | text | |
Latitude | text | |
Longitude | text | |
Comment_ | text | |
Primary_Alt | text | |
Alternative_Name | text | |
DailyAvg | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:hospitals
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/hospitals
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/hospitals.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
- hospitals
- 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 |