For developing world demographers, data on home toilets is important. This data periodically gets recorded in Open Street Map.
Unfortunately this brings up a number of conflicts, among them the use of a map by a member of the public wishing to use a toilet. Nothing distinguishes a toilet one can walk into, from a toilet where that would be rude at best. Here's an example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3066715547#map=18/-16.03918/34.72667 I'm opening a discussion about at least mechanically re-tagging operator:type=private into "access=no" or "access=private", so that rendering software can choose to omit these locations depending on the map purpose. And further seeking comments on what could be done to limit the number of private inaccessible facilities that end up in the database.
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