[Tagging] Adding values healthcare=dispensary and healthcare=community_care?

[Paul Allen]

On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:59, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:


> But I would not recommend using "dispensary" for the tag value, because as
> mentioned above, in North American English this is used for a shop which
> dispenses medical marijuana, and accordign to Oxford, in British English it
> means "A room where medicines are prepared and provided".
>

Back before the name "pharmacy" became common in the UK, we had
"dispensing chemists" referring to the shop where drugs were dispensed.  The
Wikipedia article on dispensary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensary
discusses this meaning (a place where drugs are dispensed), and no other,
in its
introduction.  Yet for some reason, despite it not being mentioned at all
in the
introduction, the first section after the introduction discusses its
meaning as
an outpatient health facility in Kenya.

Yes, this would cause confusion in OSM.

-- 
Paul
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