Dataset
Precincts (2017)
City of Boston voting precincts- October 2017
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 7
- Keywords
- 2017, Elections, Precincts, Voting, static
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/precincts-2017
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 | 14979 | 609ccc0680140caaaaf60d26360287c3a50d1db6a3cd65d22c2f19860344e88e | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 549262 | 78628d1e0196ee232f236b4f080f3a19dac90f61bd01426b8da12b60a08a8ad1 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 133192 | e0aad6a6318f978b1d83dd67cb598340487ca276de5f92de50408d07cecbe79a | 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 | |
PRECINCT | text | |
WARD_PRECINCT | text | |
Plan_Dist | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:precincts-2017
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/precincts-2017
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/precincts-2017.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
- precincts-2017
- 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 |