<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>"Excluding private toilet seems a sane step for a general purpose map."<br><br></div>Completely private toilets (especially home toilets) may not be mapped<br></div>with amenity=toilet, what solves rendering problems.<br><br></div>Public toilets with restricted access should be mapped with appropriate<br></div>access tag.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-03-03 2:58 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com" target="_blank">bryce2@obviously.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:44 PM, John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><span>> On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:45 AM, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> 2) new key ... private=* ?<br></span></span>+1<span class=""><br>If OSM wants to be used in emergency uses or be flexible for odd data sets, mapping private toilets (or propane ovens, house-top solar panels, or places where x is useful<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>1) Tagging your neighbor's toilet/oven/Ferrari could easily be seen as coveting those items. I don't recommend it. YMMV.</div></div><div><br></div><div>2) A "private=" tag only works for certain tag types.</div><div>However a namespace could work. "disused:" is one such namespace. For reference a sample use of "disused:" is:<br></div><div>"disused:amenty=toilet , disused:note=Burned down 2014, scheduled for a rebuild August 2015".</div><div>So you could entertain "private:amenity=toilet".</div><div><br></div><div>3) We already have "access=private", a well established tag. The question is which private things should be excluded from<br></div><div>rendered maps (e.g. toilets), and which ones should show (e.g. buildings).</div><div>Excluding private toilet seems a sane step for a general purpose map. Else you get this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3066715547#map=18/-16.03918/34.72667" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3066715547#map=18/-16.03918/34.72667</a><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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