Dataset
Parcels (2013)
<span style='font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>This layer contains the polygons representing the parcel outlines in the City of Boston.</span>
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 9
- Keywords
- static
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/parcels-20131
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 | 31002437 | 3e5e63a0beb2e27d5c9b0c24815c005eca172aaa879123d373d3c97be7b5cfeb | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 20715114 | 404f2f93d63448f2c1b2e42483cc482f5211551c26f94eeaf96188b84a5e0456 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 21162502 | a1a68ef92c45eecfd5caa1d91dc77a0d7f77c2830ffc3fd00d01a1c6c651b358 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
| ZIP | 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 |
|---|---|---|
OID_ | text | |
WARD | text | |
PARCEL | text | |
PID_LONG | text | |
WPD | text | |
BATCH | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:parcels-20131
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-20131
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/parcels-20131.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
- parcels-20131
- 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 |