[talk-au] Pharmacy/chemist tagging

[Warin]

On 19/05/19 13:36, Sebastian S. wrote:
>
> A pharmacy in a hospital is accessible to customers (as in patients).
> E.g. when I was at the emergency department and they release me with a 
> prescription I can go there to obtain the medication.
> Or where you referring to the 'pharmacy' where doctors and nurses get 
> the drugs?
Think he is referring to the one for doctors and nurses.
>
> I agree with all other points as well.
> I would even argue that some chemist are shops, they are selling soft 
> drinks and icecream.
A 'shop' is a place that sells physical stuff, like cameras, bread, 
pies, .... bandages or drugs. So to me a chemist is a shop.
>
>
> On 19 May 2019 8:52:24 am AEST, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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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