Fasina recalled asking people in the town where the nearest toilets were, but said he was “surprised” that no-one seemed to know.<\/p>\n
He said that “the idea started from my own frustration” and that “getting the data and getting the app together wasn’t really easy”.<\/p>\n
“I looked at public data online – different council data mashed up with latitude and longitude, open source data and put it together,” he said.<\/p>\n
“One of the challenges was the accuracy and completeness of the data.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had people say there are toilets listed on the app that are closed, they’re not open, the opening hours are different, they’re not clean, they’re not well looked after.”<\/p>\n
Fasina said he is looking to partner with local councils to make the app more accurate.<\/p>\n
“But there is a lot of positive feedback so that’s what’s keeping me going with the project,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It’s really surprising to me that a lot of people are searching – a project that I just started in my own room and it makes me know that this is a serious problem.”<\/p>\n
In Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch there are 30 toilet blocks along 15 miles of seafront, and the council said each of them is cleaned at least three times daily. <\/p>\n
A council spokesperson added: “There are occasions when unforeseen circumstances arise, including mechanical failures, misuse, or vandalism.<\/p>\n
“We have a wide network of free, accessible toilets across the BCP area and remain committed to providing this essential service for both residents and visitors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fasina recalled asking people in the town where the nearest toilets were, but said he was “surprised” that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-406296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}