Menstrual products can now be tagged in #OpenStreetMap 🎉
The vote went through and the proposal was accepted! If you encounter a toilet that has menstrual products available (or if you want to document the lack thereof) you can now use
toilets:menstrual_products=yes/now/limitedFor more information see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:toilets:menstrual_products
PS: In theory this was possible before but the approved proposal is a way of the community to find a consensus on how to tag. The new tag is now documented and can be included in survey tools like #StreetComplete
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:
in reply to moanos • • •Public toilets
dev.mapcomplete.orgmoanos
in reply to Pietervdvn :mapcomplete: • • •Thank you!
I tried to use it and checked
Did I miss something? I have never tried mapcomplete (which seems amazing!) so it's very possible I misunderstand something
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:
in reply to moanos • • •moanos
in reply to Pietervdvn :mapcomplete: • • •Sure:
11082891714hastoilets:menstrual_products=yeswhich does not seem to be reflected in the text description9015083896says "No free menstrual products are available here" although there is no entrytoilets:menstrual_products=no- I guess this is a sensible default? But then it'd maybe make sense to still include it in the questions? Same for11128525907Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:
in reply to moanos • • •There are two ways to tag toilets. One of them is `amenity=toilets`, as stand-alone point. Another way is to have `toilets=yes`, to indicate that a certain amenity/shop/restaurant/... has toilets available. In the latter case, this is not the main attribute.
MapComplete has _two_ layers for toilets: one for the 'stand alone' case, another for the `toilet_at_amenity` case. And I only added the new module to the standalone case, where node/11082891714 is one at an amenity.
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:
in reply to Pietervdvn :mapcomplete: • • •(I'm personally opposed to having `toilet=yes` and _much_ prefer the toilets to mapped separately. It is a stepping stone to proper indoor mapping and allows for more nuance, e.g. what if the toilets have different opening hours then the entire amenity? What if one wants to add a picture of the toilets specifically?
However, it is quick and easy start)
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:
in reply to Pietervdvn :mapcomplete: • • •About the other cases without entry, I indeed assumed that a missing `menstrual_products`-attribute implies that there _are_ no menstrual products available. The only cases I've seen menstrual products handed out was at CCC (which is very queer-friendly and in Germany).
However, I cannot say much, as I don't frequent the 'female only'-parts of toilets... Let's hope this changes!
Ian Turton
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in reply to Ian Turton • • •service:menstrual_products.Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:
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