National Public Toilet Map

Description

The National Public Toilet Map shows the location of more than 14,000 public and private public toilet facilities across Australia. Details of toilet facilities can also be found along major travel routes and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is provided about each toilet, such as location, opening hours, availability of baby change rooms, accessibility for people with disabilities and the details of other nearby toilets.

Licence

To download the National Public Toilet Map dataset, you must agree to the following terms and conditions:

These are the terms and conditions (the Terms) upon which the Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Department of Finance and Deregulation (ABN 61 970 632 495) of Canberra A.C.T. (the Commonwealth, us, we or our as the context requires) makes available to you the Database referred to below. Your right to access the Database for the Permitted Purpose is conditional upon you first agreeing to the Terms. You may not access the Database if you do not accept the Terms.

By accessing the database you will be deemed to have accepted the Terms.

By accepting the Terms you warrant to us that you are of legal age and have capacity to form a binding contract with the Commonwealth.

Before continuing you should print or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.

 1. Definitions

Commencement Date

 means the date you accept the Terms (or are deemed to accept the Terms).

Database

means the database (known as the National Public Toilet Database) owned by and provided on behalf of the Commonwealth including any updates provided by or on behalf of the Commonwealth, that records some or all of the following details for public toilets in Australia:

(a) toilet name;

(b) address;

(c) latitude and longitude;

(d) general toilet features;

(e) location;

(f) accessibility;

(g) opening hours;

(h) additional features (e.g. showers, baby change facilities etc);

(i) notes (e.g. coin operated showers etc).

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(b) design and build, or have designed and built on your behalf, any Derivative Products.

Terms

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 2. Commencement

2.1 The Terms commence on the Commencement Date and continue unless and until terminated in accordance with clause 8.

 3. Grant of Licence

3.1 We grant you a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty free, non-transferable and world-wide licence to access the Database for the Permitted Purpose.

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 4. Exclusion of liability

4.1 You agree that most of the data and information contained in the Database is provided by organisations and other entities on a voluntary and ad hoc basis.

4.2 We provide the Database to you on the basis that:

(a) no warranty is given that the Database is accurate, complete or fit for any particular purpose, including the Permitted Purpose; and

(b) you are responsible for and you accept all risks arising in connection with your access and disclosure of the Database; and

(c) we may cease to make the Database available (or cease to make updates to the Database) at any time.

 5. Currency of data

5.1 If a purpose for which you access the Database is to assist people to locate or know the features of public toilets, you must update your copy of the Database and any Derivative Products as soon as reasonably practicable after an update to the Database is made available on the data.australia.gov.au website (or successor site).

 6. Intellectual Property Rights

6.1 You acknowledge and agree that the Database represents the Commonwealth’s exclusive property and that the Commonwealth owns any and all IPRs in the Database.

 7. User Disclaimer

7.1 You must ensure that if and when you make any Derivative Product available to third parties that you do so on terms that ensure users they understand that we do not guarantee, and accept no risk in respect of, the accuracy, currency or completeness of the Derivative Product.

 8. Termination

8.1 We may by notice immediately terminate these Terms if you breach any obligation contained in these Terms.

8.2 In the event of termination of these Terms, you may continue to exercise your licensed rights in respect of your Derivative Products in existence prior to the date of expiry or termination but you have no right to access the Data

base for any other purpose (including to update your Derivative Products).

9. General Provisions

9.1 These Terms are governed by, and are to be construed in accordance with, the law of the Australian Capital Territory.

9.2 We may vary these terms at any time by reasonable notice to you.

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Date Published
9 December 2009
Date Updated
1 December 2011
Update Frequency
Not specified

Dataset Information

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Keywords / Tags
Licence
Proprietary
Permalink
http://data.gov.au/610

Contributing Agency Information

Agency
Department of Health and Aging (View all datasets from Department of Health and Aging)
Jurisdiction
Agency Program
The National Public Toilet Map

Dataset Coverage

Temporal Coverage
Not specified
Geospatial Coverage
Australia
Granularity
(a) toilet name; (b) address; (c) latitude and longitude; (d) general toilet features; (e) location; (f) accessibility; (g) opening hours; (h) additional features (e.g. showers, baby change facilities etc); (i) notes (e.g. coin operated showers etc).

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17 Responses to “National Public Toilet Map” Dataset Comments RSS

  1. 11/03/11 at 8:57 Anaree Nelson

    Hello, when I downloaded the “Toilet Map” zip file and then attempted to open the xml file it crashed my computer. anaree

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    • 11/03/11 at 9:24 Mike T – AGIMO

      Hi Anaree – The extracted XML file is quite large sitting at 23.1MB. When I try to open this in Internet Explorer, it’ll take a very long time to open and after it has opened and formatted nicely, it took up around 1.9G of RAM. Based on this experience, I would suggest using an XML editor (there’s a few good ones so I won’t name them), text editor or you could try a spreadsheet app. There’s close to 17000 records.

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    • 11/03/11 at 9:45 Lisa – AGIMO

      Thanks for the pick up Anaree.

      Although the extracted file is large, there did seem to be an issue with it. I have uploaded it again and it should be fine now.

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  2. 16/03/11 at 19:10 David Gardiner

    I’m using this data for my Windows Phone 7 app – ‘Aussie Toilets‘.

    I’d like to build in the ability for the app to load the latest data from here, but that’s going to be difficult if there isn’t a fixed URL pointing to the latest .zip file.

    Could you please make such a URL available?

    thanks,
    -david

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  3. 04/04/11 at 8:56 Lisa – AGIMO

    For those toilet map fans out there…the data has been updated!

    Reply

    • 05/04/11 at 18:05 David Gardiner

      Hi Lisa,
      the latest version has some inconsistencies. The files in the .zip are named Toiletmap.xml and Toiletmap.xsd – but inside the XML file, the schema file referred to is ToiletMapExport-V_1_0.xsd

      (and previously the XML file was named ToiletmapExport.xml)

      -david

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      • 06/04/11 at 8:49 Lisa – AGIMO

        Thanks David – I have updated the file. Let me know if it needs any further tweaking.

  4. 24/04/11 at 12:11 Andrew Buckley

    Hello AGIMO Team,
    I thought I would join David in thanking you for this data, and let you know I have developed an Android application which is also making use of this data.

    It can be found on the Android Market and further details about the app can be found here.

    Thanks again,
    Andrew

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  5. 11/05/11 at 16:14 Steve – TRA

    Thank you for access to this data the locations provided are invaluable for our survey work

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    • 11/05/11 at 16:26 Lisa – AGIMO

      Thanks for the feedback Steve – it’s great to know that the Department of Health and Ageing and data.gov.au have been able to add even more value to toilets!

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      • 12/05/11 at 14:40 Steve – TRA

        Lisa

        It is not so much the toilets that are useful. :)
        It is the location, generally in reserves and roadside stops, where the tourists we survey tend to stop overnight.

  6. What a weird license.

    A Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike would have covered it without Health spending so much on a lawyer!!

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  7. 08/09/11 at 1:35 RachComacc

    Looks amazing looking forward to trying it out

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  8. Nice data set. We’re also imported all those toilets in a map layer at 10cookies.
    Check it out at:
    https://www.10cookies.com/MapLayer/2bd38a15-d354-4d92-8542-d9f9e5d8aa0a

    Reply

  9. 13/12/11 at 7:06 Lisa – AGIMO

    In time for Christmas and New Year celebrations…the December update of the toilet map is now available!

    Reply

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