[Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - (office=courier)"

muzirian muzirian at gmail.com
Mon May 15 10:45:37 UTC 2017


I think I tried to address suggestions made.Are you suggesting to scrap the
proposal and use post office instead?

Regards

On Monday, May 15, 2017, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:

> Hi  Kelvin,
>
> I still don't see how this proposal addresses any of the many concerns
> brought forward in the previous amenity=courier voting or this thread. Just
> changing amenity to office doesn't make the whole post-office/courier
> tagging any better (quite the opposite in my opinion).
>
> Tobi
>
>
> Am 12.05.2017 um 11:43 schrieb muzirian:
>
> Is it okay to push this to voting again?
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:08 PM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','johnw at mac.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','list at tobias-wrede.de');>> wrote:
>>
>> Am 25.04.2017 um 11:21 schrieb John Willis:
>>
>> If I search for a supermarket and you send me to a 7-11, you failed.
>>
>>
>> I partly agree but when I tag Walmart or Trader Joe's as a supermarket's
>> brand that carries a clear expectation towards the assortment of the store.
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn’t send it to the mailing list by accident: here is the message he
>> is quoting from in it’s entirety
>>
>> Javbw
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','list at tobias-wrede.de');>> wrote:
>>
>> a supermarket's brand that carries a clear expectation towards the
>> assortment of the store.
>>
>>
>> This is true for all businesses in all counties. The regional assumption
>> of what goods/services are available varies not only by "brand", but what
>> each type of shop offers varies by culture - similar to what is available
>> at a "drug store" and a "pharmacy". A drug store in the US often has a
>> prescription pharmacy in the back.
>> What is considered a "prescription" and what is OTC is similar to the
>> regional variation with of what is offered at a supermarket or a post
>> office, but at least there is a clear separation between OTC and
>> prescription drugs in most countries.
>>
>> A Supermarket or department store o might also have most of what a drug
>> store offers and a pharmacy (like target did). But in other cultures, for
>> cultural or legal reasons, they might be separated, like here in Japan. So
>> there is a need for both a "pharmacy" (chemist?) and a "drug store".
>>
>> Whereas in the US, we would need a way to tag the prescription pharmacy
>> as an amenity offered by a drug store or a department store.
>>
>> I cannot think of a "pharmacy" shop that only sells perception medication
>> and nothing else in the US - they are are (seemingly) always part of a
>> larger drug store that sells chocolate and vitamins and OTC drugs and other
>> not-drug stuff the Prescription drugs are just another thing they offer.
>> But in Japan, the OTC stuff is separated from the prescription stuff, and a
>> prescription shop is very tiny and sells (basically) only perceptions,
>> nothing else _at all_.
>>
>> Trying to tie them together saying "they both sell medicines" and "we can
>> separate them by brand" and "we have so many variations we need to tag them
>> in a different manner" breaks the tagging system for all of them
>> completely, and does little to address the need for the "amenity" tag
>> needed to add it onto larger businesses that offer an entire business'
>> service as a department in their store - like a garden center at DIY shop,
>> a custom-order cake shop inside a supermarket, or package drop-off&pickup
>> for a courier at a convenience store.
>>
>> Javbw.
>>
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