Data and licensing

Some of the bathrooms on this site were imported from OpenStreetMap. That obliges us to credit them, and it obliges us to give our own data back on the same terms. This page is both of those things in one place.

What we took

Places tagged amenity=toilets in OpenStreetMap, together with the administrative boundaries and street names used to work out which town each one is in. Imported records say so on their own page, and they arrive with nothing confirmed — every fact starts with no votes behind it, because nobody here has checked it. The first person who does is the first vote.

Contains information from OpenStreetMap, which is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

What that means for our data

ODbL has a share-alike condition. Because we mixed imported bathrooms with contributed ones in the same dataset — rather than keeping them in a separate, untouchable layer — our bathroom data is a derivative database, and we have to publish it under the same licence. We think that is the right trade: bathroom locations are a commodity that OpenStreetMap gives away anyway, and keeping them locked up would buy us very little at the cost of not being able to import at all.

What is in the download

• Places and bathrooms: name, address, coordinates, and the objective facts — step-free access, baby changing, stalls, how you get in, and so on.
• Whether each record came from OpenStreetMap or from a contributor here.

What is not

• Reviews and ratings. They are written by people here, contain no OpenStreetMap data, and are a different kind of thing entirely — share-alike does not reach them.
• Anything about a person. No accounts, no email addresses, no handles, no who-said-what. A licence obligation is not a reason to publish contributors.
• Photos, saved places, and moderation records.

Download the bathroom data (JSON) 9,258 bathrooms · 9,253 imported from OpenStreetMap · licensed ODbL 1.0

If you find something wrong

An imported pin in the wrong place is a common one, and you do not need an account to see it — but you do need one to fix it. Either correct it here, which helps this site, or fix it in OpenStreetMap, which helps everyone using that data. Both are worth doing; the second is worth more.

Maps

The map tiles are also OpenStreetMap, served by the OpenStreetMap Foundation under their tile usage policy. We draw them with MapLibre GL JS.