[talk-au] Pharmacy/chemist tagging

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat May 18 22:52:24 UTC 2019


On 18/05/19 21:05, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> I agree with David's comment at 
> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/2597#issuecomment-492617726
>
> For almost all retail outlets, they match the wiki descriptions for 
> both amenity=pharmacy and shop=chemist, so both tags should be used on 
> the same node/way (it's all one on the ground feature, so should only 
> have one object in OSM), ie.
>
> amenity=pharmacy
> shop=chemist
> name=Amcal
> brand=Amcal
>
> The same would normally apply for all those other names mentioned.
>
> I further agree with David, that in-hospital pharmacies may not have 
> the shop=chemist part (per OSM wiki) so could only have 
> amenity=pharmacy, but since many of these in-hospital pharmacies 
> wouldn't be open to the public, so would be access=private.
:) An OSM amenity should be for the public ... so there is a conflict 
with the use of the amenity key with a pharmacies... I see pharmacies as 
part of heath care.


>
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 18:03, Mateusz Konieczny 
> <matkoniecz at tutanota.com <mailto:matkoniecz at tutanota.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     How for example Amcal will be tagged?
>
>     amenity=pharmacy
>     name=Amcal
>
>     or
>
>     amenity=pharmacy
>     shop=chemist
>     name=Amcal
>
>     or
>
>     shop=chemist
>     name=Amcal
>
>     ?
>
>     The same for objects with
>
>     name="Blooms The Chemist"
>     name="Chemist King Discount Pharmacy"
>     name="Guardian Pharmacy"
>     name="PharmaSave"
>     name="Pharmacy 4 Less"
>     name="Priceline Pharmacy"
>     name="UFS"
>
>     I am asking as I want to improve
>     https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/
>     and I lack local knowledge how it should be tagged. Data from this
>     project are
>     used for example by iD and Vespucci.
>     Improving it may help mappers using this editors as they will be
>     guided better during editing.
>
>     In this case it was triggered by
>     https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/2597
>
>     PS
>     What is the preferred tagging of name for "Chemist King Discount
>     Pharmacy"?
>     name="Chemist King Discount Pharmacy"
>     or
>     name="Chemist King"
>     official_name="Chemist King Discount Pharmacy"
>     ?
>
>
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