Dataset
Public Works Districts
City of Boston Public Works Department (PWD) districts as of August 2015.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 8
- Keywords
- boston, bparc, ckan, districts, public, works
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/public-works-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 | 1749 | 08d6105d2a561dca8caee9f6428312d306f7932a813e9ae4423f6633f3a94679 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 1199206 | 77ef74c43c861b89544c54226ffc402abe83b5e53ed944ad215ef997cb5e6363 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 319960 | cc21546abd1a842b249ad79e0a6d480fa4c0a4b0d8faede42383a68695ad5c95 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
PWD | text | |
NAME | text | |
COMBO | text | |
DIST | text | |
GlobalID | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:public-works-districts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/public-works-districts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/public-works-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
- public-works-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 |