Dataset
Wireless Antenna Installation Requests Approved
Wireless small cell antenna /DAS applications that have been approved by the City of Boston since 1/1/2017. This data is updated daily at 12:57pm. This data should be combined with the DAS/small cell application approved prior to 1/1/2017 to get a complete profile of all installations in the City.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 17
- Keywords
- Approved, Installation, Requests, Wireless Antenna
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
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 | 505507 | c108d0c7b174c3633512a13983e047be8346aa3a2eb3531ef51f261aa1e79714 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 1090385 | 3f59bf002bdc14ef192786f4d2023d45fbba2d98e3baf7b358b2d9d288b7c7b3 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 147895 | 4b882337247f1adc8b5824c4fb717ac5f4ac0b25940b29a5da5d1a669e82e3a4 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
Vendor | text | |
Neighborhood | text | |
Address | text | |
Lat | text | |
Long | text | |
Planned_Install_Date | text | |
Original_Pole_Type | text | |
Attachment_Or_Replacement | text | |
New_Pole_Type | text | |
Pole_Identifying_Number | text | |
Intended_Commercial_Use | text | |
Spectrum | text | |
City_Reference | text | |
Requester_Email_Address | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved.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
- wireless-antenna-installation-requests-approved
- 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 |