Dataset
Main Street Districts
Boston Main Street districts are a network of 20 Main Street Organizations that use a comprehensive revitalization approach to create, build, and sustain healthy commercial districts.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 8
- Keywords
- boston, ckan, data, districts, dnd, main, open, street
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/main-street-districts
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 | 1425 | 1c74b9917aad5becb00f63194d60f060ac44529aa289ee3968b090e228f2bbda | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 188189 | 9c475f3affc9e28da04114faa63133843dd73f779efacd51cc7f211260d541a5 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 54729 | d8875b8ae536de4e5aacad25ed2f5a2284b877e64c9b69ba2e21d7b5fd4fcb94 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
ROW_ID | text | |
NAME | text | |
DIST_NAME | text | |
AREA | text | |
LEN | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:main-street-districts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/main-street-districts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/main-street-districts.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
- main-street-districts
- 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 |