All Property: Boston Assessing Department, 1992, Tract Level

Metadata:

Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Online_Linkage: ASSESALT.dbf

Originator: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Publication_Date: 1998

Title: All Property: Boston Assessing Department, 1992, Tract Level

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Cambridge
Publisher: State of Massachusetts

Description:

Abstract:: Covers land use for all types of property. The City of Boston's Assessing Department is responsible for determining the value of a commercial or residential property. The amount of property taxes paid by the property's owner is determined by the assessed value of the property and building. - This file covers 105,144 parcels of all land use types in the city of Boston. - The total assessed value of the land in 1992 was $8,480,015,400. - The total assessed value of the property in 1992 was $19,740,949,620.
Purpose: See abstract
Supplemental_Information: None

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Real Estate

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: City of Boston

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1992

Currentness_Reference: None

Native_Data_Set_Environment: ArcView version 3.0b Table

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.19146
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.84979
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.39946
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.22656

Access_Constraints: Distribution to Harvard students and staff only

Use_Constraints: Use by Harvard students and staff only.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Harvard Graduadte School of Design
Contact_Person: Paul Cote

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 48 Quincy Street
City: Cambridge
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02138
Country: U.S.A.

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (617) 496-0546

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: None
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: None
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: None

Data_Set_Credit: Boston Assessing

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report: None

Completeness_Report: None

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Boston Foundation

Publication_Date: 1993

Title: Boston Children and Families Database

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Boston, Masssachusetts
Publisher: Boston Foundation

Other_Citation_Details:

Datasets in the children and families database were collected from many different sources. Each source was normalized by census tract, blockgroup or zipcode by some folks at Northeastern University. For details on this process and on the Children and Families Database, consult the full documentation provided in bfppp3.doc which should be in the same directory as the tables.

Online_Linkage: None

Source_Scale_Denominator: 250000

Type_of_Source_Media: digital maps and tables

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1992

Source_Currentness_Reference: None

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Children and Families Database

Source_Contribution: data

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Data was converted from the Lotus WK1 files provided by the Children and Families database to dbase files for better compatibility with Arcview. Occasionally, the numeric census geography IDs were converted from numbers in order to facilitate joins.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Children and Families Database

Process_Date: 1997

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Paul Cote
Contact_Organization: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 48 Quincy Street
City: Cambridge
State_or_Province: Massachusetts
Postal_Code: 02138
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: NA

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pbcote@gsd.harvard.edu

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Table

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: State Plane Coordinate System 1983

State_Plane_Coordinate_System:

SPCS_Zone_Identifier: 2001

Lambert_Conformal_Conic:

Standard_Parallel: 41.71667
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -71.50000
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 41.0000
False_Easting: 200000.0000
False_Northing: 750000.00000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 1
Ordinate_Resolution: 1

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:: The entities in this dataset are attributes of 1990 census tracts. To be mapped, these attributes must be joined with an appropriate database of tract polygons.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: None

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: ASSESALT.dbf
Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute Table
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tract

Attribute_Definition: Census Tract

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1.000
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1404.000

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: n/a

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Count

Attribute_Definition: Number of parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2809

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tagrig

Attribute_Definition: Number of agriculture parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tapart

Attribute_Definition: Number of Apartment building parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 128

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tcomland

Attribute_Definition: Number of commercial land parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 40

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tcommco

Attribute_Definition: Number of Commercial condo parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 479

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tcomme

Attribute_Definition: Number of commercial parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 258

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tcondod

Attribute_Definition: Number of condo dwelling parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2241

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tconmast

Attribute_Definition: Number of condo master parcels (common land).

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 239

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tconpark

Attribute_Definition: Number of condo parking parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 332

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Texempt

Attribute_Definition: Number of tax exempt parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 122

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Texempta

Attribute_Definition: Number of tax exempt 121A parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 34

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tindust

Attribute_Definition: Number of industrial parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 81

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tres1

Attribute_Definition: Number of single family residence parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1299

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tres2

Attribute_Definition: Number of two-family resident parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 444

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tres3

Attribute_Definition: Number of three family resident parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 389

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tres4

Attribute_Definition: Number of four family resident parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 132

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Trescom

Attribute_Definition: Number of resident /commercial parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 114

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Treslan

Attribute_Definition: Number of residential land parcels.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 90

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Tusemis

Attribute_Definition: Number of parcels for which use is missing.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 5

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Parcels

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Totland

Attribute_Definition: Total value of land.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 761788700

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: US_Dollars

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Totprop

Attribute_Definition: Total value of property.

Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2472095220

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: US_Dollars

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19980801

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Paul Cote
Contact_Organization: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 48 Quiny Street
City: Cambridge
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02138
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (617) 496-0546

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pbcote@gsd.harvard.edu

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC CSDGM

Metadata_Standard_Version: 19940608

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