News

Exciting news, safe2pee was selected to be a part of the upcoming MoMA exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind.” If you are in New York between Febuary and May you should check it out! We are extremely thrilled about this and think it will be great exposure for the issue. More details will follow very soon.

myspace… or we caved in

perhaps it is a sign of the times, but we caved and joined myspace! So you all should join up and support your favorite gender neutral bathroom directory…. Our Profile

proximity search / “bathrooms near me”

we’ve launched a basic proximity search in both web and mobile flavors. If you’re looking for the nearest bathroom you no longer have to stumble around the site and look through a long list, you can just text us or fill out the simple form!

over 1000!

I’m proud to say that over the weekend we reached the 1000 bathroom mark! Thank you to everyone who contributed. We’re reworking a few things on the backend, which should improve handling of Canadian locations. You might not see some locations on the map for the next day or two, but this issue should be resolved shortly!

support for lat and long … finally

hey folks,

This is long overdue, but this evening we added the ability to create new entries by latitude and longitude.  This should make it easier for people to add hard to find spots, university campuses, bathrooms in parks, etc. We’re working to put together further upgrades and broader international support. you will hear more from us soon.

New Flyer

Self-Promotion

From the creators of safe2pee comes a brand new social justice mash-up! Please visit Harvestr, the world wide, open source directory of community food resources (fruit trees, edible plants, farmer’s markets, food not bombs, etc). The site is still in the alpha phase and will be adding features, changing a lot. Enjoy.

http://harvestr.org/broccoli/ 

mexico added, downtime

We just added support for Mexico, so we’ve now got all of North America covered.

Sadly, almost simultaneously our database went down and is now reporting “too many connections.” I am not sure if it is just an intermittent failure or if we’re under attack or just received a huge spike in traffic! We’ll see soon, I hope we do not have to revert from back ups.

UPDATE 06/16 9:40AM: Everything is back to normal!

SMS update

An update from yesterday … we now support city queries via SMS, for both US and Canadian cities. The syntax follows:

cty [city name], [state/province abbrev]

Examples:

cty portland,or

cty vancouver, bc

cty san francisco, ca

Yeah, it’s REAL basic and we promise more coming soon… but think of it as a wonderful start! Now you can get the info on where to go when you’re on the go!

Email / SMS message support

I haven’t written here in a while, but I have very exciting news for all of you that follow safe2pee. We now have support for SMS messages (aka text messaging)!

This feature is still in early beta and the email address is rather long.

At the moment this feature only supports US postal codes. Have no fear though, we will be shortening the address, adding more information, Canadian locations and search by city soon.

Try emailing or texting local at safe2pee dot org. the syntax is as follows:

zip 94109

zip 11212

Again this is still in serious beta, so we’d love to hear your feedback!

Update! We now support queries by city. details, details