<div dir="auto">My local two Boots are:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">a) a dedicated pharmacy (with limited OTC pharmaceutical products) associated with the GP practice (which is huge, 40k registered patients)</div><div dir="auto">and b) a chemist selling mainly beauty/personal grooming products and sandwiches.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the middle of town there is a very large Boots which at one time was like a small department store, and a smaller more typicsl high street outlet.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Moral: there is no one size fits all. However, amenity=pharmacy is nearly always a more important piece of information than shop =chemist (most people around the world map pharmacies as POIs very early on. I think using pharmacy=yes in this case does not fit with how things have been mapped for at least 15 years. By all means use both tags or create a separate node for the pharmacy counter, but dont change things in such a way as to surprise people.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Most pharmacies in supermarkets or heslth centres should be mapped separately anyway.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jerry</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, 18:09 Peter Neale via Talk-GB, <<a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Robert,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">As Boots' stores don't ALL have a pharmacy counter, IMHO they should be tagged as "shop=chemist". Those that DO have a pharmacy (dispensing prescriptions) should be additionally tagged, either with "pharmacy=yes", or with a separate node for the pharmacy. I think that would fit with the checking that you describe for your tool.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">As regards "pharmacy type", does your data identify what I would call "wholesale pharmacies", who have no public access, but supply medicines to hospitals, care homes and individual customers in their homes? I know of 2 in my area. In one case, I changed the name to "Jardines (on line)" (<span>Node: 6409354480) </span>and in the other to "Mediva Private Pharmacy" (<span>Node: 6443190532)</span>, in an attempt to make it clear that there is no public access. </div><div dir="ltr">Could these be excluded in future?</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div><div style="font-family:new times,serif;font-size:16px"><div>Regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Peter</div></div></div></div>
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On Sunday, 12 April 2020, 14:41:01 BST, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <<a href="mailto:robert.whittaker%2Bosm@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">robert.whittaker+osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">>On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 18:39, Dave Love <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:david.love@oxon.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">david.love@oxon.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 12:08 +0100, SK53 wrote:<br clear="none">>> > Robert Whittaker has a Pharmacy QA <<a shape="rect" href="https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/</a><br clear="none">>> > > site<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> That shows a Boots missing which I tagged as the brand from the<br clear="none">>> correction iD wanted (brand=Boots shop=chemist). How should Boots be<br clear="none">>> tagged, and does iD need a fix? (I assume all Boots have pharmacies,<br clear="none">>> but maybe not.)<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>As far as my tool at <a shape="rect" href="https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/progress/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/progress/ </a>is<br clear="none">>concerned, pharmacies are recognised as OSM objects tagged with either</div><div dir="ltr">>amenity=pharmacy or pharmacy=yes*. (The latter can be used on things<br clear="none">>like supermarkets and doctors surgeries, when things aren't mapped in<br clear="none">>enough detail to have a separate amenity=pharmacy node.)<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>As for whether all Boots stores have pharmacies, I think most do, but<br clear="none">>some don't: <a shape="rect" href="https://www.boots-uk.com/about-boots-uk/about-boots/boots-in-numbers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.boots-uk.com/about-boots-uk/about-boots/boots-in-numbers/</a><br clear="none">>says there are 2,465 Boots stores, but in the General Pharmaceutical<br clear="none">>Council register of Pharmacies, there are only 2304 premises<br clear="none">>registered to 'Boots UK Limited'.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>Robert<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>PS: I've just noticed that the data I'm using for my tool now contains<br clear="none">>a "Pharmacy Type" field. This means I can exclude internet only<br clear="none">>pharmacies, temporary locations (e.g. for events) and internal<br clear="none">>hospital and prisons pharmacies. This will hopefully make the<br clear="none">>comparison shown by the tool must more useful.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>* Because of the change to exclude hospital and prison pharmacies from<br clear="none">>the GPhC data, OSM objects with pharmacy=yes will only be picked up in<br clear="none">>my tool if they do not also have amenity=hospital or amenity=prison<br clear="none">>too.<div id="m_2150731576826628500ydp324bb22dyqtfd27045"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">--<br clear="none">Robert Whittaker<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Talk-GB mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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