AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Approved Building Permits

Building permits help to  establish compliance of construction work with the minimum standards of safety established by the State Building Code to ensure public health and safety for everyone. A building permit is required before beginning most construction, demolition, modification and repair work. The Inspectional Services Department offers permitting processes tailored for a wide variety of projects, from home repairs to building demolition. 


For more information on the permitting process, visit our [Inspectional Services Department Permitting Process](https://www.boston.gov/departments/inspectional-services/inspectional-services-permitting-process) page. To apply for a new building permit or check the status of your pending permit application, go to our [City of Boston Permits and Licenses Application](https://onlinepermitsandlicenses.cityofboston.gov/isdpermits/Views/Login.aspx?PID=fxvvKp6NAs54YEy8wyk0feWRPUV+KhYS8KtlVzhivTcnxyBjZnxjT+xe4QY6pZE68Lx42QYOFXsycoDoGZVRLA==) page.

### WHAT IS THE DATASET FOR?


This dataset includes information about building permits issued by the City of Boston from 2009 to the present. Permits that are being processed or have been denied, deleted, void or revoked are not included in the dataset. 

### WHAT PERMIT TYPES ARE PRESENT IN THE DATASET?


This dataset includes information about the following types of building permits:

- Short Form Building Permit
- Electrical Permit
- Plumbing Permit 
- Gas Permit
- Electrical Low Voltage
- Long Form/Alteration Permit
- Electrical Fire Alarms
- Certificate of Occupancy
- Electrical Temporary Service
- Amendment to a Long Form
- Erect/New Construction
- Use of Premises
- Foundation Permit

For more information on these permits and their application process, visit our [Building Permits information](https://www.boston.gov/departments/inspectional-services/what-building-permit-do-i-need) page. 

### WHAT DOES EACH PERMIT APPLICATION STATUS MEAN?

- **Issued:** indicates that the permit has been issued on date specified as *issued_date*.

- **Open:** indicates that the permit has been issued and is still valid for the applicant (i.e. not expired yet).

- **Closed:** indicates that the permit was successfully issued but is not valid anymore (i.e. has expired).

- **Stop work:** indicates the permit was successfully issued but it stopped working due to non-compliance or other issues before the expiration date. 


Tags: addition, alt, alteration, av, ave, avenue, awning, bl, blvd, boulevard, build, building, certificate, chgocc, ci, city of boston, cob, construction, coo, demolition, demolitions, electrical, erect, ert, extdem, exterior, extren, fa, fast track, fire alarm, fsttrk, gas, insul, insulation, intdem, interior, intext, intren, isd, legacy portal, long form, lvolt, occupancy, permits, pl, plumbing, raze, rd, removal, renovation, road, roof, service change, sf, short form, side, siding, sol, solar panel, srvchg, st, street, voltage
Organization: Inspectional Services Department
Assessing Online

The Assessing Online application brings direct access for taxpayers, homeowners, real estate and legal professionals as well as business owners to property parcel data including assessed value, location, ownership and tax information for each piece of property in the city.

The information assists homeowners directly in their ownership responsibilities by providing the current value and tax status of their property. Professional real estate, business and legal entities access and draw upon Boston property parcel data to support and enhance their specific business operations. The GIS data appended to this application provides valuable graphical contexts for researchers, analysts and other professionals interested in demographical patterns, property usage and development.

Tags: property value
Organization: Assessing Department
BERDO Reporting (2021)

<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.75rem; max-width:100%; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='max-width:100%; display:inherit;'>BERDO Reporting for 2021. Consists of building energy use data for 2020. Created on 10/19/2021.</span></p>

Tags: BERDO, buildings, energy, environment, static, sustainability
Organization: Boston Maps
Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Funding FY22

This dataset provides a breakdown of the City of Boston's efforts to fund Community-based Organizations that do violence prevention, intervention, and recovery work within the City. It highlights the different cabinets/bureaus/departments that offer funding related to community violence prevention, the funded organizations and programs, the amount of funding that the city has offered, and the ways to get in contact with each of the funded organizations.

Organization: Equity & Inclusion
2020 Census Block Groups in Boston

Census block groups are created by the U.S. Census Bureau as statistical geographic subdivisions of a census tract defined for the tabulation and presentation of data from the decennial census and the American Community Survey. Block groups generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. Census block groups are split or merged every 10 years, depending on population change, with local feedback through the Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP). These shapefiles provide the boundaries for the 2020 block groups for Boston.

Tags: GIS, block groups, census 2020
Organization: Planning Department
Boston Neighborhood Boundaries approximated by 2020 Census Block Groups

The Census Bureau does not recognize or release data for Boston neighborhoods. However, Census block groups can be aggregated to approximate Boston neighborhood boundaries to allow for reporting and visualization of Census data at the neighborhood level. Census block groups are created by the U.S. Census Bureau as statistical geographic subdivisions of a census tract defined for the tabulation and presentation of data from the decennial census and the American Community Survey. The 2020 Census block group boundary files for Boston can be found <a href="https://data.boston.gov/dataset/census-2020-block-groups">here</a>. These block group-approximated neighborhood boundaries are used for work with Census data. Work that does not rely on Census data generally uses the Boston neighborhood boundaries found <a href="https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-neighborhoods">here</a>.

Tags: 2020, GIS, block groups, census
Organization: Planning Department
In Custody Deaths

The Boston Police Department's Homicide Investigation Unit, in conjunction with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, investigates deaths that occur while a prisoner is under police custody.  This may include incidents that occur during arrest, transport, while in a holding cell, etc.  

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has legal authority over all death investigations in Suffolk County.  They investigate all in custody deaths in conjunction with BPD, and make a determination as to whether there is a violation of criminal law.  

Due to the infrequency of in-custody deaths, this dashboard will be updated as soon as possible following an incident, or a new medical examiner report is received.  If there are no incidents in a year the dashboard will be updated annually to record a zero for the previous year.  

Organization: Boston Police Department
Homicide Clearance Rate

The Boston Police Department’s Homicide Investigation Unit investigates all homicides occurring within Boston Police jurisdiction.  According to FBI standards, the annual homicide clearance rate is calculated using the total number of new homicides in a calendar year, and the total number of homicides that are cleared that calendar year – regardless of the year the homicide occurred within.  The reason for this is that homicide investigations can span multiple calendar years.  In addition, incidents that happened in previous years can be ruled a homicide years later and added to the current year’s total. 

Organization: Boston Police Department
TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square

## Can we use emerging technology to support and enhance our tree inventory?

We worked with a small technology startup, [Green City Watch](https://greencitywatch.org/), to use Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery. We used this tool to remotely “predict” the likely locations of trees, as well as a few health indicators of those trees.

We started with part of one neighborhood (Nubian Square in Roxbury) to understand:  

- What the technology was capable of in an urban context, and;
- Whether or how it might be a useful tool for internal and external stakeholders on a larger scale.

__For more information on this project, and the results and implications of our work, visit the webpage [here](https://www.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanics/treetect)__

Tags: MONUM, New Urban Mechanics, canopy, tree inventory, trees
Organization: Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Boston Buildings Inventory

This dataset pulls from many different data sources to identify individual building characteristics of all buildings in Boston. It also identifies high-potential retrofit options to reduce carbon emissions in multifamily buildings, using the best available data and assumptions from building experts. 

_Building characteristics will require on-site verification before an owner can act on them._

Find out more about [carbon targets for Boston's existing large buildings.](http://boston.gov/departments/environment/developing-carbon-targets-existing-large-buildings)

Tags: building inventory, carbon emissions, environment, retrofit, sustainability
Organization: Environment Department
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 74,000 City streetlights.

Tags: hubhacks, infrastructure, legacy portal, lights, streetlights
Organization: Boston Maps
Mayor's 24 Hour Hotline

Before the launch of the Boston 311 platform in 2015, City constituents could request non-emergency City services through the Mayor's 24 hotline by phone, web, or other channels. This a legacy dataset which contains records of such requests between the periods of November 2012 and February 2013. 

Please see the 311 Service Requests distribution for a more up to date view of constituent requests, available at https://data.boston.gov/dataset/311-service-requests.

Tags: 311, legacy portal, mayors office, service requests
Organization: Boston 311
DND Managed City Property Developable

The Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) takes care of city owned property, including the maintanence of buildings and vacant land on foreclosed or abondened property that is suitable for development. This is a legacy dataset that provides information on the size, location, and more on this category of property. 

Please see the current visualization of this data, provided by the Department of Neighborhood Development, for the most up to date information. Available @ http://property.boston.gov

Tags: development, housing, legacy portal, neighborhood, property
Organization: Boston Maps
DND - Property Inventory

The Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) takes care of city owned property, including the maintanence of buildings and vacant land. This is a legacy dataset that provides information on these properties including the size, location, potential use, and more. 

Please see the current visualization of this data, provided by the Department of Neighborhood Development, for the most up to date information. Available @ http://property.boston.gov

Tags: development, housing, legacy portal, neighborhood, property
Organization: Boston Maps
DND Managed City Property Inventory All

The Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) takes care of city owned property, including the maintanence of buildings and vacant land. This is a legacy dataset that provides information on these properties including the size, location, potential use, and more.

Please see the current visualization of this data, provided by the Department of Neighborhood Development, for the most up to date information. Available @ http://property.boston.gov

Tags: development, housing, legacy portal, neighborhood, property
Organization: Boston Maps
Crime Incident Reports (July 2012 - August 2015) (Source: Legacy System)

Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. This is a dataset containing records from a legacy crime incident report system, which includes multiple fields capturing when, where, and how the incident occurred, as well as who was involved. The records span from July 2012 to August of 2015. 

Tags: crime, incidents, legacy portal, police, safety
Organization: Boston Police Department
BTD - Sign Shop Completed Work Orders

In keeping with the overall mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel throughout the City, the Boston Transportaition Department's (BTD) Sign Shop is responsbile for maintainging the signage found on City streets. 

This is a legacy dataset of completed workorders for signs to be installed, repaired, removed, and more. It also includes locations and descriptions of each sign, and dates each workorder was opened and closed.

Tags: legacy portal, signs, transit, work order
Organization: Boston Transportation Department
Wicked Free Wi-Fi Daily Connections

This is a legacy dataset shoiwng the total daily number of connections to Wicked Free Wifi, by neighborhood, between May 2015 and March 2016. Wicked Free Wifi is an outdoor wireless network that is designed to help residents and visitors discover and connect to information about the City, and can also provide internet access to otherwise underserved residents and businesses. 

Wicked Free Wifi locations: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/wicked-free-wi-fi-locations

Tags: connectivity, internet, legacy portal, web, wi-fi, wifi, wireless
Organization: Department of Innovation and Technology
Analyze Boston Homepage Hero Images

Set of photos taken from the City of Boston __[repository of crowdsourced images](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jEwGG9KGByeXkz2K4UEss_n-WTTT60ph1y3hF_4e0AU/edit#gid=2000551020)__ and used in the Hero Image slider on the homepage of __Analyze Boston__.  The aim of the repository was to collect high-quality photos showcasing the city.  The images underscore the City of Boston as the context in which its Open Data is being interpreted.   

Organization: DoIT Data & Analytics
Clough House Archaeology

Catalog of archaeological artifacts excavated in 2013 from the rear of the Clough House, 21 Unity St., North End, Boston. Data set created to complete analysis and report of the archaeological survey. Collection spans 1715-1950 and includes colonial artifacts and artifacts from English, Irish, Italian, and other immigrant peoples living in the house after 1800.

Tags: 18th century, 19th century, Clough, North End, Old North, colonial, eighteenth century, immigrants, nineteenth century, tenement
Organization: City of Boston Archaeology Program
BuildBPS: Facilities and Educational Data for Boston Public Schools

BuildBPS compiles vast amounts of data and allows for ongoing analyses that can be used to guide and inform decisions related to school building investments. An assessment team of architects and educational planners visited all of Boston Public Schools’ buildings, collecting and organizing information on the physical condition of each building and their educational suitability to the programs offered within. Beyond the general information about each school building, the data is organized in the following four categories: Facility Assessment– Building, Facility Assessment–Site, Educational Facility Effectiveness: Learning Environments, and Educational Facility Effectiveness: Spaces. This dataset will be updated on a yearly basis to reflect changes as renovations and upgrades occur.

Tags: BuildBPS, Buildings, Facilities, Operations, Schools
Organization: Boston Public Schools
Census Tracts Boston (2010)

The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB).  The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.  Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2010 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program.  The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate.  The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses.  Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people.  When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions.  The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement.  Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions.  In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined as a result of substantial population decline.  Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features.  They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses.  State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy.  In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas.  These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous.  For the 2010 Census, the census tract code range of 9400 through 9499 was enforced for census tracts that include a majority American Indian population according to Census 2000 data and/or their area was primarily covered by federally recognized American Indian reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands; the code range 9800 through 9899 was enforced for those census tracts that contained little or no population and represented a relatively large special land use area such as a National Park, military installation, or a business/industrial park; and the code range 9900 through 9998 was enforced for those census tracts that contained only water area, no land area.

Tags: Census, Census 2010, Tracts, static
Organization: Boston Maps
Existing Bike Network (2023)

<span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>This dataset contains an inventory of existing bicycle facilities within the City of Boston. It is intended for information purposes only. It is not intended to aid in trip routing. Actual conditions may vary from what is indicated in the dataset due to construction or other reasons. Updated by BTD in January 2023.</span>

Tags: bike network, btd, static
Organization: Boston Maps
DAS/Small Cell Approved Locations

<span style='color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Locations within the City of Boston of all small cell antenna/DAS approved by the City prior to 01/01/2017</span>

Tags: 2017, Approved, Boston, DAS, Small Cell, static
Organization: Boston Maps
CPA Projects and Demographics April 2023

<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.75rem; max-width:100%; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='max-width:100%; display:inherit;'>A summary of CPA projects and demographics by neighborhood. Updated April 2023 using current CPA project data and 2019 ACS data</span><div><br /></div></p>

Tags: ACS, CPA, static
Organization: Boston Maps
City of Boston Managed Streets

<div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span>This layer represents all the public and many of the private roadways in Massachusetts, including designations for Interstate, U.S. and State routes. </span></p><p><span>Formerly known as the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD) Roads, then the Executive Office of Transportation - Office of Transportation Planning (EOT-OTP) Roads, the MassDOT roads layer includes linework from the 1:5,000 road and rail centerlines data that were interpreted as part of the 1990s Black and White Digital Orthophoto project. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation - Office of Transportation Planning, which maintains this layer, continues to add linework from municipal and other sources and update existing linework using the most recent color ortho imagery as a base. The attribute table includes many "road inventory" items maintained in MassDOT's linear referencing system. </span></p><p><span>The data layer published in November 2018 is based on the MassDOT 2017 year-end Road Inventory layer and results of a 2014-2015 MassDOT-Central Transportation Planning Staff project to conflate street names and other attributes from MassGIS' "base streets" to the MassDOT Road Inventory linework. The base streets are continually maintained by MassGIS as part of the NextGen 911 and Master Address Database projects. MassGIS staff reviewed the conflated layer and added many base street arcs digitized after the completion of the conflation work. MassGIS added several fields to support legacy symbology and labeling. Other edits included modifying some linework in areas of recent construction and roadway reconfiguration to align to 2017-2018 Google ortho imagery, and making minor fixes to attributes and linework.</span></p><p><span>In ArcSDE this layer is named EOTROADS_ARC.</span></p><p><span>From this data layer MassGIS extracted the Major Roads and Major Highway Routes layers.</span></p></div></div></div>

Tags: Interstate, MassDOT, expressway, highway, roads, static, streets, transportation
Organization: Boston Maps
City Council Districts - November 2022 Approved Plan

<span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>City Council Districts, November 2022. Docket 1275 Committee Report. Created by DoIT GIS</span>

Tags: 1275, Massachusetts, Massachusetts_2020, city, city council, static
Organization: Boston Maps
City Council Districts - 2013-2022

<p style='background:white;'><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>City Council Districts</span><font face='Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next, Avenir, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif'><span style='font-size:16px;'> were approved by the City Council, signed by the Mayor and took effect January 1, 2014. Districts were updated September 2016 based on the updates made to wards and precincts by the City of Boston Election department.</span></font></p>

Tags: boston, bostonmaps, city, ckan, council, districts, public, static
Organization: Boston Maps