Dataset
Streetlight Locations
The Street Lighting Division of Public Works maintains 40,000 out of the City's 67,000 electronic streetlights, and oversees the contracting for the rest. It also takes care of 2,800 gas lights and 1,500 fire-alarm lights. This is a legacy dataset containing lattitude and longitude data for over…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 5
- Keywords
- hubhacks, infrastructure, legacy portal, lights, streetlights
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/streetlight-locations
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 6345745 | 1cc83975d04096f594f6be04f52e6a5ba5bf7c46ca016e1aa106070e37c42824 | source |
| KML | referenced | 31454058 | f19ee5cb42fd1d975fac4cb15544631e8036e6d84a03c310d446e046a2dbc2ac | source |
| KMZ | referenced | 2271902 | 46e84244f0a61d1ab5026fdf1c35f74efabc93e387ecfcfcb1debeaeac459e96 | source |
| ZIP | 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 |
|---|---|---|
the_geom | text | |
OBJECTID | text | |
TYPE | text | |
Lat | text | |
Long | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:streetlight-locations
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/streetlight-locations
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/streetlight-locations.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
- streetlight-locations
- 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 |