# Where The Shit Goes Down

> Public restroom cleanliness ratings, with photos, pinned to the business — because the bathroom tells you how clean the whole place is. Members visit a business (restaurant, café, bar, gas station, store, clinic, venue), photograph the restroom and rate its cleanliness from 1 (disaster) to 5 (spotless). Ratings and photos are pinned to that business on a map, and each place gets an average cleanliness score. 9 rated visits at 6 places so far.

Why it matters: restroom condition is a strong, visible proxy for the hygiene standards of the whole establishment — the part of a business that customers can inspect. The site is a public-health signal: crowd-sourced, photographic, dated, and location-verified.

Anyone can browse. Rating, uploading and commenting require a (free, instant) account. Every photo is reviewed by a moderator before it appears on the map; members with a track record are marked trusted and publish immediately. Each place keeps a dated history of visits, a current score (last 3 visits), an all-time average and a trend, so businesses that clean up can be seen improving.

Rating scale: 1 💀 Disaster · 2 😬 Rough · 3 😐 Okay · 4 🙂 Clean · 5 ✨ Spotless.

## Pages

- [Map](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/): interactive map with a pin per place; search any business.
- [About](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/about): what the site is and how it works.
- [Sitemap](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/sitemap.xml): every place page and photo page.

## Open data

- [places.geojson](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/data/places.geojson): all rated places (name, address, coordinates, average cleanliness rating, rating count, photo count, latest photo, page URL). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

## Places

- [Ventura West Marina](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/place/8): current 5/5 · all-time 5/5 (1 rating) · 1 photo · 1198 Navigator Dr, Ventura, CA 93001, USA · 34.24680, -119.26033
- [Smitty's Lounge](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/place/3): current 2/5 · all-time 2/5 (1 rating) · 1 photo · 3339 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610, USA · 37.81339, -122.24710
- [Swell Bar](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/place/7): current 5/5 · all-time 5/5 (2 ratings) · 2 photos · 1539 Lincoln Ave, Alameda, CA 94501, USA · 37.77451, -122.25907
- [Club house](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/place/6): current 3/5 · all-time 3/5 (1 rating) · 1 photo · 37.76147, -122.24562
- [Wonder Bar](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/place/5): current 4.5/5 · all-time 4.5/5 (2 ratings) · 2 photos · 1195 S Wells Ave, Reno, NV 89502, USA · 39.51396, -119.80339
- [Hone](https://wheretheshitgoesdown.com/place/2): 2 photos · 37.79709, -122.23941

## Contact

- watson@wheretheshitgoesdown.com