Quest: How does this toilet dispose waste?

[paulklie]

Based on my previous issue in SC. I think this quest fits quite well into SCEE:

General

Affected tag(s) to be modified/added: toilets:disposal=* Question asked: How does this toilet dispose waste?

Checklist

Checklist for quest suggestions (see guidelines):

• [x] 🚧 To be added tag is established and has a useful purpose 138k uses (around 30 percent of toilets).
• [x] 🤔 Any answer the user can give must have an equivalent tagging (Quest should not reappear to other users when solved by one)
• [ ] 🐿️ Easily answerable by any pedestrian from the outside but a survey is necessary I don't think this will always be the case in cities. However in these cases the answer is most likely going to be obviously a flush toilet anyway. I would add "fee"="no" as a filter, since we don't want the user to be required to pay to survey.
• [x] 💤 Not an overwhelming percentage of quests have the same answer (No spam) No tag has more than 50% usage.
• [x] 🕓 Applies to a reasonable number of map data (Worth the effort) Would apply to around 430k elements.

Ideas for implementation

Element selection: amenity=toilets with fee=no and toilets:disposal not set. Excluding toilets with fees also helps with spam, since most toilets that require payment are also flush in my experience.

Proposed UI: I suggest a selection screen similar to the road surface screen. I suggest these options:

1. "The waste is flushed with water" adds toilets:disposal=flush
2. "The waste is collected in a pit" adds toilets:disposal=pitlatrine These two cover over 93% of uses. The further tags suggested in the wiki are rare:
3. "The waste is collected in a tank with chemicals": Tags toilets:disposal=chemical. Covers portable toilets.

Tag	Count	Reason for not being included
dry_toilet	402	Low usage
bucket	1821	Low usage
incineration	1	Low usage

Adding this quest would also help further quests:

• Opening times are only asked for flush toilets.
• The toilets:handwashing quest.

[Helium314]

Sure, the quest would be fine!

I would add "fee"="no" as a filter

Could also be something weaker like !fee or fee = no

incineration 1

I'd really like to witness the glorious burning ceremony!

[paulklie]

Could also be something weaker like !fee or fee = no

In effect those should be mostly identical, since we already ask the fee of the toilet this would only result in a difference in one of these cases:

• The user has toilet fee (enabled by default) disabled and this new quest (disabled by default) enabled.
• The user "hides" the fee quest.
• The user manually reorders the priority of these quests to place the handwashing quest above the fee quest.

All of these seem quite unlikely to me

[Helium314]

For me either is fine