Talk:Key:unisex
Gender neutral, gender segregated and unisex=yes
Does unisex=yes mean (a) gender neutral (e.g. a unisex toilet, or (b) gender segregated, but there is male & female facilities? In English "unisex" means gender neutral, so some mappers enter unisex=yes for that[1][2][3]. This wiki page is ambiguous, and implies (a).
How do you map a gender segregated, non-unisex, toilet which serves male & female? How do you map one a unisex, gender neutral toilet?
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Not a unisex toilet
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Rorym (talk) 07:41, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I would map non-unisex like this: female=yes + male=yes + gender_segregated=yes Something B (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Disputed
Moved from main page
The OSM community has not settled on the meaning of unisex=*. The meaning of unisex=yes is unclear, with two incompatible tagging schemes in use:
unisex=yesalways means a gender-neutral facility. Gender segregated facilities (e.g. toilets) should be taggedfemale=yes+male=yes. Combinationmale=yes+female=yescannot be replaced withunisex=yes.unisex=yesis a shorthand formale=yes+female=yes, and can be used for a unisex, gender neutral facilities, or one with separated female & male sections.
- I think that the unisex tag makes sense if the building being tagged has fascilities for all genders. For example a gym with open membership. However if someone is mapping an object, such as a single latrine/toilet which is not unisex then that object would be
gender_segregated=yes&male=yesorfemale=yes. It depends on the level of detail in the mapping. Here's another example. Maybe there is a beach side clubhouse with shared facilites in the middle and gender segragated toilets at each end. The clubhouse isgender_segregated=nobut each toilet uses a gender tag. The same clubhouse might have a shared sauna which isunisex=yes. So I feel we need to think about the scale that this tag is being applied to. --Circinate (talk) 13:45, 25 November 2025 (UTC)