I don’t know what took them so long, but FINALLY someone has come up with the ultimate MUST-HAVE app for your iPhone or iTouch: SitOrSquat.com is a site which is trying to catalog and geo-coordinate all the public toilets in the world and then make that data available to you on your iPhone or other mobile device, using the built-in GPS (or, as with the iTouch, triangulated location data based on known WiFi hotspots) so that you can get a list of all of them wherever you go.
Feckin’ brilliant!!
Before you rush out to download it, be aware of its limitations: the database is VERY incomplete. The initial focus for the developers was New York City, and a number of people have complained on the website that their area has no entries listed. Of course, the complainers are partially missing the point, because the app lets you add information a la wikis to flesh (or should I say “flush”?) out the database. They’re relying on the power of the lazyweb maybe just a little too much and might have made a point to spend some time making sure that there were datapoints for more places than Manhattan, but if they get the participation they want, in short time this could be a very valuable app indeed for people traveling in unfamiliar cities.
It’s sponsored by Charmin toilet paper (how cute), so you do have to put up with an advert at the bottom of the screen, but that’s a small sacrifice when you’re about to pee your pants in a strange place. Given the number of Starbucks locations that are already listed, I think the developers ought to approach them for a sponsorship as well.
I agree this is a genius application! Now if I can get the thing to work on my Kindle or EnV2, it will be doubly wonderful.
This is pure genius.