By Jack Marrows
Brisbane Toilet Finder is an app that locates the closest public toilet to a person using an Android phone. It was developed using the public toilet dataset. The longitude and latitude of each toilet provided by the dataset is used with the geolocation capabilities of Android phones to direct a user to the closest toilet with only one click.
Looking at the UI, it is evident that all of the additional information about a restroom provided by the dataset is shown to the user such as, accessibility and opening hours. Furthermore, using the Google Street View API it was possible to display a thumbnail picture of the toilet to the user.
The app also allows users to view the average cleanliness of a toilet for a given day and rate it. The data generated by users rating the public facilities has the potential to be used by the BCC in the future when planning the allocation of resources. These ratings are stored in the cloud using a webservice built upon Google App Engine.
Finally, users can get direction to the toilet from their current location by a single click. This was implemented using the Android Google Maps API.
Brisbane Toilet Finder ratings
Brisbane Toilet Finder map