Dataset
Park_Features
<p>The Boston Parks and Recreation Department tracks a select group of park features as part of its asset inventorying efforts. This dataset contains information on the type of park feature, location, and relevant age categories. </p><p style='line-height:1.38; margin-bottom:0pt;…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 13
- Keywords
- BPRD, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, Park Features, Parks Assets, athletics, ballfields, baseball, basketball, bocce, dog park, drinking fountains, features, fields, football, fountains, futsal, handball, netball, parks, pickleball, playground, playgrounds, pump track, restroom, shade structure, skateboarding, soccer, tennis
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/park-features
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 | 308505 | 49cfac12b6b53187eda008edee751229d2b8f75fba059cd770dc81a17974e2dc | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 847513 | 906f17926d93c5b8aa4946e9c317ab884f49aaaf50d92844db4a194b3250ba46 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 70031 | 758b7c4bd145055e8278faf5b3abb276f2b1b7a981212ee18074db245913c5a6 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
Park_Name | text | |
Play_Name | text | |
Neighbor | text | |
OS_ID | text | |
Asset | text | |
asset_deta | text | |
Asset_use1 | text | |
Asset_use2 | text | |
Asset_use3 | text | |
Age | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:park-features
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/park-features
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/park-features.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
- park-features
- 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 |