Excellent idea; all cities and town should allow the public toilets to be displayed in Google maps and be rated
[h=1]Swachh idea: Now, locate cleanest toilet near you[/h]Rumu Banerjee | TNN | Dec 21, 2016, 08.17 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The urban development ministry is on a mission to find you a clean toilet. The good news is that it has already located 5,162 toilets in the NCR, with Delhi accounting for over 2,300 toilets.
The data will be available on Google Maps, with the option for users to rate the cleanliness of the public utility. The service is expected to be launched this week.
Praveen Prakash, joint secretary in the ministry of urban development, said: "The app will provide citizens the service of locating public toilets as well as toilets in their neighbourhood and in public places such as malls, petrol pumps, metro stations, etc." Scheduled to be rolled out across the country, the pilot project has been launched in the NCR and Madhya Pradesh.
The first phase of the app will have information on 5,162 clean, decent toilets in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and 441 and 703 in Indore and Bhopal, respectively. The service will also provide additional information such as quality rating, facilities available, free or paid usage and navigation directions.
Prakash said, the service will be available to users having access to Google Maps app, using search words like "public toilet" or "swachh". "The data is being fine-tuned for the launch," he added.
The app will offer two types of functionalities — an 'administrator' version, which provides access to urban local bodies of the respective cities to add toilets to the app and also to verify them, and a 'citizen' version. "The citizen version provides toilet locations to users and enables them to submit feedback after their usage," added the MoUD official.
MoUD is betting on the service catching on, considering it's running on Google Maps, one of the most widely-used apps for navigation purposes. "It will ensure a wide reach as well as a high level of quality in the integration," said the official.
To improve the app's functionality, integration between three entities was ensured, said a ministry official. This included the data provider, which collected and provided the data about location of toilets in the city; the geocoding engine, which is the software through which the data provided was geo-coded for mapping and the map provider (Google Maps), which is the front-end interface.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nest-toilet-near-you/articleshow/56092269.cms
[h=1]Swachh idea: Now, locate cleanest toilet near you[/h]Rumu Banerjee | TNN | Dec 21, 2016, 08.17 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The urban development ministry is on a mission to find you a clean toilet. The good news is that it has already located 5,162 toilets in the NCR, with Delhi accounting for over 2,300 toilets.
The data will be available on Google Maps, with the option for users to rate the cleanliness of the public utility. The service is expected to be launched this week.
Praveen Prakash, joint secretary in the ministry of urban development, said: "The app will provide citizens the service of locating public toilets as well as toilets in their neighbourhood and in public places such as malls, petrol pumps, metro stations, etc." Scheduled to be rolled out across the country, the pilot project has been launched in the NCR and Madhya Pradesh.
The first phase of the app will have information on 5,162 clean, decent toilets in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and 441 and 703 in Indore and Bhopal, respectively. The service will also provide additional information such as quality rating, facilities available, free or paid usage and navigation directions.
Prakash said, the service will be available to users having access to Google Maps app, using search words like "public toilet" or "swachh". "The data is being fine-tuned for the launch," he added.
The app will offer two types of functionalities — an 'administrator' version, which provides access to urban local bodies of the respective cities to add toilets to the app and also to verify them, and a 'citizen' version. "The citizen version provides toilet locations to users and enables them to submit feedback after their usage," added the MoUD official.
MoUD is betting on the service catching on, considering it's running on Google Maps, one of the most widely-used apps for navigation purposes. "It will ensure a wide reach as well as a high level of quality in the integration," said the official.
To improve the app's functionality, integration between three entities was ensured, said a ministry official. This included the data provider, which collected and provided the data about location of toilets in the city; the geocoding engine, which is the software through which the data provided was geo-coded for mapping and the map provider (Google Maps), which is the front-end interface.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nest-toilet-near-you/articleshow/56092269.cms
