Dataset
Live Street Address Management (SAM) Addresses
This dataset is from the City of Boston's Street Address Management (SAM) system, containing Boston addresses. Updated nightly and shared publicly.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 32
- Keywords
- address, addresses, analyze, boston, bostonmaps, bparc, ckan, daily, live, open, sam
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/live-street-address-management-sam-addresses
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 | unavailable | — | — | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 51 | 5e3185b987917de0024e57b4f077ee36409a63fffd7dce3cd2c2afcbe6f84578 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 25632965 | e0747982f3683a610adb71192c5070c8ef79d4a9743c083db7ccdbb03a95e1d2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
SAM_ADDRESS_ID | text | |
BUILDING_ID | text | |
RELATIONSHIP_TYPE | text | |
FULL_ADDRESS | text | |
STREET_NUMBER | text | |
IS_RANGE | text | |
RANGE_FROM | text | |
RANGE_TO | text | |
UNIT | text | |
FULL_STREET_NAME | text | |
STREET_ID | text | |
STREET_PREFIX | text | |
STREET_BODY | text | |
STREET_SUFFIX_ABBR | text | |
STREET_FULL_SUFFIX | text | |
STREET_SUFFIX_DIR | text | |
STREET_NUMBER_SORT | text | |
MAILING_NEIGHBORHOOD | text | |
ZIP_CODE | text | |
X_COORD | text | |
Y_COORD | text | |
SAM_STREET_ID | text | |
WARD | text | |
MAP_PAR_ID | text | |
PARCEL_ID | text | |
SEGMENT_ID | text | |
trash_day | text | |
created_date | text | |
last_edited_date | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:live-street-address-management-sam-addresses
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/live-street-address-management-sam-addresses
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/live-street-address-management-sam-addresses.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
- live-street-address-management-sam-addresses
- 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 |