I can’t remember where I found it, but there’s an ad-supported iOS app called Flush that does this:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id9552...
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#32Didn't George Costanza make millions with this app idea, only to lose it to Madoff? Also, NY bathroom pro-tip: look for the local police precinct. They will always have public bathrooms, they exist all over NY, even in the more residential areas with no shops, and the type of people who go and destroy public bathrooms or shoot up drugs in them for hours usually aren't going to voluntarily walk into a police station.
Wealthy industrialist H.E. Pennypacker would have loved such an application.
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#33It’s not too often this comes up ... but here is an iOS app for finding drinking water fountains and public restrooms using Overpass’s OSM API. https://github.com/hashFactory/ImThirsty
Ah I've wanted something like this for ages.
Do you know of anything similar for Android?
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#34This is my go-to app to find bathrooms: https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator
My local one doesn't allow customers in the bathroom unless they buy something. Are there ones that don't?
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#35The HN crowd loves to promote urbanization, density, blah blah blah. The fact that such an app exists at all is de facto proof of a failed city. Just a comic level of dysfunction. "NYC, we're so progressive we can't even address the basic requirements to support human life"
The fact that the HN crowd has to politicize a pretty carefree and lighthearted human interest story is amazing too.
Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY
#36This is my go-to app to find bathrooms: https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator
My local one doesn't allow customers in the bathroom unless they buy something. Are there ones that don't?
How recently did you check? There was a debacle in the past year or two and I think the policy changed.
Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY
#37This is my go-to app to find bathrooms: https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator
My local one doesn't allow customers in the bathroom unless they buy something. Are there ones that don't?
At a corporate level there was an open bathroom policy instituted a few years back [0]. I’m not aware of that changing but I’m also not surprised that a local outlet might not comply with that policy.
0: https://people.com/food/starbucks-bathroom-policy-change-arr...
Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY
#38It’s not too often this comes up ... but here is an iOS app for finding drinking water fountains and public restrooms using Overpass’s OSM API. https://github.com/hashFactory/ImThirsty
Ah I've wanted something like this for ages. Do you know of anything similar for Android?
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#39Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY
#40The HN crowd loves to promote urbanization, density, blah blah blah. The fact that such an app exists at all is de facto proof of a failed city. Just a comic level of dysfunction. "NYC, we're so progressive we can't even address the basic requirements to support human life"
Part of the problem in NYC is any time you offer any kind of community utility/service it invariably gets taken over by the homeless population. Benches become beds, libraries become bedrooms, cell phone charging stations become encampments.
Yeah, it's an unfortunate, "This is why we can't have nice things," situation. I would really love the idea of having public restrooms both for convenience for anyone who is out and about, and to allow homeless people to have some amount of dignity about being able to relieve themselves.
But you're right, it invariably gets taken over and becomes disgusting. And all the solutions I can think of are quite dystopian, like having a video camera that watches you in the bathroom so it can detect any kind of foul play.