This page contains stuff related to developing the Toilets specification.

Tracey is leading this stream.

It has 4. steps:

1. Research standards
2. Define specification
3. Publish data
4. Use data

1. Research standards

Existing standards

• Open Council Standards
• a schema for public toilet data in the UK and the schema
• changing places
• BCC Analysis of Toilet Standards version 1 and version 2.

Requirements / User stories

• As a person in a wheelchair, I want to ..., so that ... .
• As a publisher of Toilet data, I want to contribute my data to other popular apps (e.g. Open Street Map, the National Public Toilet Map) so that I increase the options for people to easily find and assess toilet facilities.
• As an asset owner, I want to demonstrate my compliance with the law so that my performance is transparent and I can be held accountable.

Data custodians

• Queensland Government, Transport and Main Roads, TRANSLink
• Local Councils
• Queensland Rail

Existing data

Sources of information about toilets in Queensland:

• Data tagged toilets on data.gov.au
• Changing places
• Transport and Main Roads
• Gold Coast
• Sunshine Coast
• Brisbane City
• Logan City
• Moreton Bay

2. Define specification

The specification will be:

• contributed to Open Council Standards to encourage use across all Australian Local Councils
• defined as a data package and json table schema.

The specification is being drafted and commented on in this Google Sheet.

3. Publish data

• publish some test data
• publish metadata i.e. a json schema for the toilet specification

4. Use data

Potential data consumers:

• Community Information Support Services
• Open Street Map Project Disabilities. Create mapping from this specification to support bulk import to OSM.
• Open Street Map Features (General)
• Wheelmap.org. Create mapping from this specification to support bulk import to Wheelman.org.

Potential uses

• show toilets on a map
• find my nearest open toilet that fits my needs
• rate the data
• crowd-source the data