[Tagging] Mapping private home toilets

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I would remove such objects where I am surveying. In that case I contacted
author of tag with information that amenity=toilets is defined as public
toilet.

2015-03-03 16:00 GMT+01:00 John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>:

>   However, since someone apparently HAS been mapping private toilets, we
> need to either decide to remove them, or decide how they should be tagged
> to distinguish them from toilets available to the general public.
>
> --
> John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
> "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
> drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
> On March 3, 2015 12:34:22 AM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "Excluding private toilet seems a sane step for a general purpose map."
>>
>> Completely private toilets (especially home toilets) may not be mapped
>> with amenity=toilet, what solves rendering problems.
>>
>> Public toilets with restricted access should be mapped with appropriate
>> access tag.
>>
>>
>> 2015-03-03 2:58 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:44 PM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:45 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > 2) new key ... private=* ?
>>>> +1
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> 1) Tagging your neighbor's toilet/oven/Ferrari could easily be seen as
>>> coveting those items.  I don't recommend it.  YMMV.
>>>
>>> 2) A "private=" tag only works for certain tag types.
>>> However a namespace could work.  "disused:" is one such namespace.  For
>>> reference a sample use of "disused:" is:
>>> "disused:amenty=toilet  , disused:note=Burned down 2014, scheduled for a
>>> rebuild August 2015".
>>> So you could entertain "private:amenity=toilet".
>>>
>>> 3)  We already have "access=private", a well established tag.  The
>>> question is which private things should be excluded from
>>> rendered maps (e.g. toilets), and which ones should show (e.g.
>>> buildings).
>>> Excluding private toilet seems a sane step for a general purpose map.
>>> Else you get this:
>>>
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3066715547#map=18/-16.03918/34.72667
>>>
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