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/limited

For more information see wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ke…

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

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.

in reply to Pietervdvn

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!

in reply to Pietervdvn

I see. Honestly I think like there are many ways to improve tagging but felt this was the best solution given the current state of mapping and what I expect people to realistically map. Also I didn't want to introduce a "cover all" solution when there is so little experience in the community as a whole tagging menstrual products and my own experience with OSM tagging schemas is very limited. really hope that the community will find additional solutions over time.