Transparency about where our data comes from and how we're allowed to use it.
Every restroom shown on Toilet Hunt is pulled live from OpenStreetMap — a free, editable map built by volunteer contributors worldwide — via its public Overpass API. We don't maintain a separate database of our own; when a contributor adds, corrects, or removes a listing on OpenStreetMap, it's reflected here automatically the next time that area is searched.
City and address search uses OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoder to turn a place name into map coordinates.
Map tiles are provided by CARTO's free basemap service, built on OpenStreetMap data.
OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL), which requires attribution. You'll see "© OpenStreetMap contributors" on the map and in our footer on every page — please keep that in mind if you ever reuse data or screenshots from this site.
Unlike some restroom directories, Toilet Hunt does not currently license or import proprietary government open-data sets (for example, national public toilet registries). We rely entirely on OpenStreetMap's community data today. We may evaluate supplementary official data sources for specific countries in the future, and we'll update this page if that changes.
Because we mirror OpenStreetMap live, the most effective fix is correcting the listing at the source.