Boston parks shapefile

Places to visit Places to visit. The 1,acre chain of nine parks is linked by parkways and waterways. Visit the Emerald Necklace. We manage three active cemeteries and 16 burying grounds in Boston. Learn more about cemeteries. The Urban Wilds form an essential part of the City's open space system. Learn about Urban Wilds. Stay Connected. Get information about news, events, and construction projects in the Boston Parks.

Your Email Address. Zip Code. Sign Up. BOS service requests Service requests. Cemetery maintenance Damaged fountain Damaged play equipment Park maintenance Report a lighting issue Request a new tree Tree maintenance. Latest news News. Oct Ash Tree care plan for Boston announced Parks and Recreation. Oct 8. Groundbreaking event held for park honoring Justice Edward O.

Gourdin, Black war… Parks and Recreation. Trees in the City Trees in the City. Caring for Boston's urban forest. How to get a tree planted on City land. You can have a street tree planted on the sidewalk in front of your home or business. How to request a tree removal. If you want to remove a healthy tree, we need to hold a public hearing. More Parks information. Get Parks approval for your building permit.

You can download free iOS and Android apps to help plan your trip and discover the stories that make our parks special. Cowpens National Battlefield Legislative Segment map. Explore This Park. Check out Map Finder!

National Park Service Story Maps Story maps combine spatial data with multimedia content such as text, photos, video, and audio into a tailored user experience. National Park Service Apps Heading to a park and want to enhance your visit with your phone or tablet? Note: These are temporarily unavailable as we update them to meet compliance.

Thank you for your patience. As such this data is intended for use as a tool for GIS analysis. This article is a part of the Get to Know Your Data series, where we talk to the people and institutions that create, store, and share geospatial data.

In this series, we ask about how data managers engage with public audiences and grapple with the social lives of the data that they manage.

When you think about public resources like open space, recreation areas, trees, shady areas, benches and tables, accessible public restrooms, what questions come to mind? And who is able to access them? An excerpt from an plan of Brighton Park. Last year, as part of our May Angles on Bending Lines discussion series, Maggie talked with us about how data can be used to tell competing versions of the truth.

Today, our discussion focuses on the attitudes and practices of BPRD as they strive to responsibly and meaningfully manage public datasets. We collect and present information as we get it from the public, for example, with the Parcel Priority Plan , we were publishing bi-weekly survey results of places where people think there should be open space and why, including survey responses by zip code. This type of information helps us adjust our strategies and maybe target people when we see we are missing groups.

It also allows the public to see a little bit of transparency about the information we are getting and how that relates to the decisions we are making. BL: Which data resources or digital tools do you manage that have the greatest opportunity for good? Obviously building and housing is a big thing in Boston with the way prices are. That received a lot of attention, apparently—I was surprised. The public started really engaging with that to figure out what was going on in their neighborhood.