[Diversity-talk] [OSM-talk] How do you mapping gender neutral toilets? What should the unisex tag mean?

[Dan S]

A solution! Good

2018-04-26 20:55 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:
> Somehow I don't see anything on the wiki page that supports this lengthy
> thread.
>
> The issue may be that there are (at least) two ways to map a toilet
> facility:
>
> - rough, one node or area for the whole thing, indicating that unisex,
> female and male apply to the options available within, making it
> diffifult to determine what is exactly implied,
>
> - detailed: a node, entrance or room per toilet "room", for which the
> three tags make perfect sense.
>
> It would seem that a simple way to make the tagging in the first case
> less ambivalent would be to add a tag segregated=yes/no (so a unisex=yes
> segregated=yes facility would only have gender specific rooms, with
> segregated=no you could expect at least one unisex room).
>
> Simon
>
> Am 26.04.2018 um 09:15 schrieb Rory McCann:
>> On 26/04/18 01:00, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>>> If most existing data is using unisex to mean "there are both male and
>>> female toilets", then it doesn't matter one bit what the wiki says.
>>> Reusing the tag to mean "there are gender-neutral toilets" will cause
>>> confusion with that existing data.
>>
>> That's one of my original questions. What (if any) data consumers are
>> using this data/tags?
>>
>> If some popular site/app was using it to display a map that's one thing.
>> If no-one is using the data, and many data contributors (mappers) are
>> using "unisex=yes" as gender neutral, then it doesn't matter if the wiki
>> says "it's the same as gender segregated"! 🙂
>>
>> I haven't found any sites/apps/projects using this data/tags.
>>
>>
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