There is something fundamentally odd about The National Public Toilet Map of Australia. To be fair, if one is incontintent and has a web ready PDA this is probably useful. But the rest of us can only look and wonder.

Oddly, you can Register and subsequently while browsing you can “Add to my toilets”. The website uses some common icons:

  • - Male.
  • - Female.
  • - Wheelchair acessable.

But what’s this one for?

  • My guess is it’s a bush loo!

I’m not intending to poke fun at the incontenent here (God knows it could happen to me someday) so I’m sure those who comissioned the site had good intentions. However, they should stand back and check if the result matches the real requirements of the incontinent, or just gets close because it was implemented on an off the shelf product designed to locate commercial facilities in a, emm, less urgent manner. I mean, c’mon, more than likely someone will need this information when they are not prepared - what are they supposed to do find the nearest access point first? Perhaps a freefone information phone line might have been a better option.

That said, the site is ranked 3rd in Google for the search term “map australia” (the one I was using, I swear!) so someone must be using it!