[Tagging] Veterinary pharmacy

[Volker Schmidt]

I think we need different tags for pharmacies for humans and pharmacies
that are exclusively veterinary, for a very simple reason, that is to avoid
having the ambiguity when a place is tagged only as pharmacy without
veterinary yes/no (or equivalent)


On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, 14:41 Paul Allen, <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 09:47, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28/3/20 7:51 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>> On 28. Mar 2020, at 08:31, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>
>> <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> veterinary medical supplies, how to choose what amenity?
>>
>> <#m_2592763474315826844_m_-6572554985251167290_>
>>
>> On 28/3/20 6:12 pm, Francesco Ansanelli wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have a question about this tag:
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dveterinary_pharmacy
>>
>>
>> It's not much adopted and in unknown status. Should we use it?
>>
>> Some pharmacies also sells veterinary medical supplies, how to choose
>> what amenity?
>>
>>
>>
>> Map both as separate nodes.
>>
>>
>>
>> but it’s the same shop.
>>
>>
>> Different OSM features.
>>
>
> Really?  I suppose there might be such a place, with different shop
> counters,
> different staff, different back rooms full of medicines, etc., but I'd
> expect
> it to be a normal pharmacy that also carries some veterinary medicines.
> There are 3 pharmacies in my town and one vet (there used to be two
> vets; there's another pharmacy being set up).  None of the pharmacies
> have a separate counter for veterinary medicines but I know that at
> least one of them dispenses them because my next-door-neighbout
> with three dogs and two cats gets them from somewhere, and she's
> not travelling to either of the two cities over 30 miles away to get
> them.
>
> In a really big city I suppose there could be a veterinary-only pharmacy.
> So we may need amenity=veterinary_pharmacy for rare cases but
> for most instances we'll need something that goes along with
> amenity=pharmacy (and/or healthcare=pharmacy) to indicate
> it also handles veterinary medicines.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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