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by parker_mountain 987 days ago
My Macbook has 18 hours of battery, my phone has unlimited tethering. Just make a bathroom map lol.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=toilet.samrust...

I have had it on my phone for years and has been accurate when I used it. The biggest issue is forgetting it is on my phone when I am in a rush to find a bathroom.

The description doesn't say, do you know where that app gets its data from?

The map background and routing instructions from screenshots are from Google, but I'd be surprised if Google collects toilet data, lets you query that via an API, yet doesn't show that in their own app. Does this app have its own database, or is there some third party that collects an overview of these?

Based on the properties it shows for a toilet in a screenshot, it could be OSM, but then some reviews complain that there is no field for "last checked" yet OSM supports that (check_date=YYYY-MM-DD) so either that's not it or they don't parse/show that field

Bad take
Perhaps I'm naive, but I trust my tethering more than public wifi.
18 hours doing what?
Honestly, whatever the heck I want! If I really tax it, i can maybe bring it down to 12 hours.
Try running Docker Desktop, it’ll be gone in no time!
Too true
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