Where2Go: Bathroom Ratings

May 8, 2024

Had to bring our old friend here into the 21st century. Couple changes under the hood. Thanks to all of you who have added bathrooms! Happy pooping!

January 18, 2022

A new update is finally here. This one took me quite a bit of time, but there are a ton of improvements. TLDR: New bathroom screen with more info. Bathroom screen pops up smaller at first. Less intrusive. Swipe up to see the whole thing. You can now vote on features at each bathroom (public, clean, ADA, changing tables). All game scores now saved, with a new leaderboard at each bathroom. Get travel time as well as route to bathroom from your location. New bathroom issue reporting system. Okay, now if you want to read more: First up, the bathroom screen. When you click on a bathroom, instead of being brought to an obtrusive different view, you'll get a pop up on the bottom of the screen that presents you all relevant information about that bathroom. The distance, the type, the name, the rating... and now, the "features". For lack of a better word, I'm calling these things features. You'll notice on the bottom right of the popup options for Public, ADA, Clean, and Changing Tables. Next to these will be a red x, a green check, or a blank blue circle. As I am sure you can guess, green means yes, x means no, and blank means those features haven't been identified yet. Which brings me to.... the features voting. Drag upward (or scroll upward) on the popup to be presented with a full sized all new bathroom screen. Here you will see a section called Bathroom Features. As usual, its up to you wonderful users to make this useful. If a bathroom IS any of the options (it is available to public, it is clean, it is accessible, it is clean), press the thumbs up. If not, thumbs down. Then press save. Your votes get sent to the database, which then allows other users to see the scores. This will be useful now, but will be extra useful next update when I implement the ability to filter for these types of bathrooms. Scroll down, you'll see a redesigned review section, with the latest review shown and the option to see all reviews available. The game will now show you the top 5 scores instead of just the current leader, so you know what the competition looks like. Speaking of, I fixed a bunch of bugs with the score handling, so every score is indexed now and the score leaderboards will be much more useful. My favorite new feature, for no other reason than it looks cool, is the map section at the bottom of the bathroom screen. Scroll down, and you'll see a route mapped out between the bathroom and your current location. You can change the route to be either walking or driving. If you want full directions, press the get directions button to be brought to Apple Maps. Your walking/driving selection will be carried over there. There is also an all new reporting system, with a much easier way to report problems. I hope you don't have to use it, but if you do, it has much more information. Coming soon is the option to have the app auto open to the nearest public restroom, as many on the internet and a certain angry one star reviewer have requested. Thank you all so much for adding bathrooms and making this app what it is. Please check out the leaderboards. The_Urban_Explorer still sits atop the throne, where they rightly belong for adding and reviewing 80 bathrooms in Philly and New York. EIGHTY BATHROOMS. 80! 8-0! 10 times 8! Truly incredible.

December 9, 2021

Some bug fixes and small feature enhancements here. When you add or review a bathroom, you are no longer brought back to your location, your screen remains over whichever bathroom you were interacting with. Same thing with adding a bathroom, your screen will stay in that location. Sorry it took me so long to fix that. It was an early "feature", but became a nuisance as the app evolved. I want to thank user The_Urban_Explorer for adding so many bathrooms. You are one of the backbones of this app, and I hope you read this and know the whole community appreciates you. Check out the leaderboards, everybody!

December 4, 2021

Finally added the ability to long press on a location to add a bathroom there. Press and hold on a spot on the map and you will be brought to the bathroom add screen. This will make it much easier for you wonderful people adding bathrooms far from your current location. You are the backbone of this app. I am still working on the labels feature (public, ADA, etc.) as well as some other new features. They should be rolled out soon. I just wanted to get this out quickly, and it was an easy coding fix.

November 27, 2021

A couple more bug fixes. A huge welcome to all the new users. Thank you for adding bathrooms!

November 10, 2021

Quick bug fixes from the big 2.0 release.

November 9, 2021

2.0 is here! A monumental update indeed. Where2begin... Usernames are a thing now. When you open the app after updating you'll be given a user sign up screen. If you sign up, your username will be saved whenever you do something cool, like add a bathroom, review a bathroom, or set a high score. You can use the app without signing up, but your cool things won't be saved. To go along with the usernames, we have a leaderboard now. See who adds the most bathrooms and who is the best at the game. Leaders might get some sweet toilet t-shirt or something one day. We'll see. Oh, yeah there's a NEW GAME! Tappy toilet was cool, but the way I implanted it was terrible. RIP Tappy Toilet. Long live Toilet Run. I went with the ole click stick bridge game. I have become very good at it. Good luck beating BenDanklin's high scores. I hope you love it. I redesigned all of the screens. Stars are bigger now when you're rating a bathroom, so they're easier to press.  Theres a menu now, where you can access your stats and the leaderboard. I spent 19 days coding this but apparently ALL of that work can be summed up in just over 1000 characters. Anyway, I hope you enjoy. I've been adding bathrooms, and hopefully more users means more bathrooms for all of us. Thanks for pooping with me.

September 10, 2021

Hello. It is I, a nice little update here. Redesigned the bathroom info screen to be more useful. Click on the “get directions” button to…get this…get directions to the bathroom. The app will bring you to Apple Maps and load up the directions. I was going to keep the navigation in house on the app but Apple provides a beautiful interface for it so let them do the work, ya know? Gave you the ability to control your search radius. Click on the Change Search Radius button. You can now filter for ratings and for bathroom type. Only want the best? Set your minimum stars to 5. Fixed some bugs on how the bathrooms load, also added some loading indicators so you know the app is doing its thing. A UI explainer is coming soon. I wanted to get this minor redesign out first.   Thank you for adding and reviewing bathrooms. You are the best.

August 19, 2021

Further small bug fixes before bigger updates are released.  Thank you for adding bathrooms!

August 17, 2021

Bug fixes to my previous bug fixes. Did some backend server work to make the app run more smoothly. The app will only pull in bathrooms near you, and moving around the map with your finger will pull in bathrooms in the areas that you land on. The radius is currently 2.5 miles. Seems low for rural areas, but is crazy high for cities, so will have to work on that. Anyway, this takes a big load off that little pocket computer you have when the app is running. Added a loading indicator for when the bathrooms are being pulled from the server. The app will also now let you know when you are out of range of any bathrooms, which is nice. Start adding. :) Updated the database to include about 3000 rest areas with bathrooms across the US. Working on more public bathrooms and other countries too. Looking at adding search in the .2 update.

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