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park · official boundary

Winthrop Playground II

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 43-45 Danube St.

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 43-45 Danube St.

Place

official layer

An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.

Type
park
Authority
City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within
Boston
Area
574 square metres
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.geojson — 943 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Winthrop Playground II, a park in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It encloses approximately 574 square metres.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.svg — 1454 bytes, SHA-256 f640f14905620a6e… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.geojson (application/geo+json, 943 bytes, SHA-256 bd001096fc72d8b5…). The map is simplified for drawing; the boundary is not.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Where is Winthrop Playground II, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Winthrop Playground II is a park within Boston. The archive holds its boundary on the official layer: promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Who drew the boundary of Winthrop Playground II?

City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department promulgated it. A boundary with no promulgating authority is an assertion rather than a fact, and this archive files those separately, as claims.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Winthrop Playground II?

574 square metres, computed from the boundary the archive holds and not quoted from elsewhere.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive's map of Winthrop Playground II show?

A static map of the boundary, rendered by the archive on a server and never in a reader's browser, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest f640f14905620a6ee1a47567eab06c2d8387d5d2d4ef6c8b123f92e6747a4453.

What does the archive hold for Winthrop Playground II, and under what licence?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Winthrop Playground II from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 4 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:winthrop-playground-ii
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/winthrop-playground-ii
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/winthrop-playground-ii.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
545
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portalarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizethe source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archivearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3reprojectthe source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinatesarchive-ingest 0.1.0
4externalize-boundaryThe boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/winthrop-playground-ii.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0