<p>This is great. <br>
One note on composing. Compost toilets can be both fixed location pits, and buckets. I'm familiar with systems where buckets (5 to 40 gallons) are filled with waste and then dumped on a local compost or picked up by a third party and brought to a human waste composing center.</p>
<p>I would say toilets:waste=flush,pitlatrine,bucket. And then add the established composting=yes tag to tag as composting. This also covers flush composters. </p>
<p>I would also like to see chemical toilets brought back in somehow. They are important WASH objects in camp mapping.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 20, 2013 12:47 PM, "Bryce Nesbitt" <<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com">bryce2@obviously.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Ok, good points. There are at least three major "front end" experiences, none of which are exclusive at any location:</div><div><ol><li>Squat</li><li>Sit</li><li>Urinal</li></ol><div><div>And one fairly critical front-end refinement related to wiping:</div>
<div><ol><li>Toilet paper provided.</li><li>BYOP (Bring your own paper if you want it)</li><li>Rag provided (you wash it out yourself)</li></ol></div></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div><br></div><div>Major back-end experiences include:</div></div><div><ol><li>Flush (waste is carried away after each use)</li><li>Pit (waste remains on site) </li></ol><div>But it divides down more than that:</div></div>
<div><ol><li>Pits</li><ol><li>unlined pits (waste drops into a hole -- the most common type. When full, a new hole is dug nearby.)</li><li>lined pits (waste drops into a vault which is periodically pumped out)</li><li>
composting (waste drops into an on-site composting vault, with potential for reduced odor)</li>
<li>chemical (a lined vault is filled with a chemical. common on portable toilets).</li><li>bucket (just a bucket someone has to remove periodically).</li></ol><li>Flush</li><ol><li>Water flushing (clean water is used to help remove waste).</li>
<li>Waterless flushing (e.g. Water Free Technolgies)</li></ol></ol></div><div>There's also a squat/sit combo just to jazz things up:</div><div>(See <a href="http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Pedestal-squat-toilet.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Pedestal-squat-toilet.jpg</a> )</div>
<div><br></div><div><img src="http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Pedestal-squat-toilet.jpg" alt="Inline image 1"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But the important distinctions may be less. I'd be happy with no more than three categories:</div><div><ul><li>Flush toilet</li><li>Open pits (where you see the waste)</li>
<li>Composting (where the waste is continually treated, and often not apparent)</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Thus it might be:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>toilets=yes or amenity=toilets</div>
</div><div><div>toilets:position=(squat,seat,urinal)</div></div><div><div>toilets:waste=[flush,pitlatrine,composting,bucket]</div></div><div>toilets:paper=no</div><div>fee=[yes,no]</div></blockquote><div><div>Where a multiple value of "toilets:position=seat;urinal" would be most common in Western countries.</div>
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