[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project (Health): Pharmacies and Defibrillators

[Eric Grosso]

Fantastic tool! Thanks so much Robert.

2. If it's a big supermarket or shopping centre, it's generally a polygon.
So it's possible to add a POI which is the amenity. In case the supermarket
is already a POI, your option, as written as well in the OSM wiki
discussion, i.e. pharmacy=yes could work but isn't a common OSM
specification. So why not using shop=supermarket and amenity=pharmacy
together. I don't see any incompatibility in using both tags.

3. I checked few pharmacies in Edinburgh and indeed, some of the red
circles in link with Boots are wrongly tagged as amenity=pharmacy. The
Boots website indicates if there are pharmacy services or in-store services
+ pharmacy services. The ones in red have no pharmacy services. It seems
that some of them aren't even chemists. So the tag will have probably to be
decided for each case.

4. (same remark than above) Why not using both amenity=pharmacy and
shop=chemist?

Best wishes,
Eric



On 9 May 2016 at 18:02, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <
robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> This quarter's Healthcare project doesn't seem to have got as much
> traction as the Schools one. Possibly due to the fact that there's
> isn't a single obvious data-source to employ, and there's little scope
> for arm-chair mapping.
>
> I posted previously about a comparison tool I built for defibrillators
> at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/defib/progress/ similar to the one I
> made previously for schools [1]. The data comes from the Easter
> Ambulance Service, and theirs is the only dataset I could find in a
> useful format. I've made FOI requests to a couple of other Ambulance
> trusts [2],[3], but they haven't got back to me yet.
>
> I've recently noticed that the General Pharmaceutical Council publish
> a list of registered pharmacies. I think this list should be complete
> (i.e. any dispensing pharmacy in Great Britain must be registered) so
> I've built a similar tool at
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/pharmacy/progress/ . (There's a similar
> Register for Northern Ireland, but the complete list isn't published.)
>
> I've asked for permission to re-use the information in the list to
> help improve OSM [4], but haven't had a response yet. I don't think
> any permission is needed to run the comparison, but it would be needed
> to use the information directly in OSM. (e.g. adding registration
> numbers, and using the address information). However, the tool can
> still be used at the moment to indicated possible places to survey.
>
> A few initial observations and tagging questions:
>
> 1/ I think it's interesting how relatively uniform our coverage of
> pharmacies is.
>
> 2/ There are a lot of pharmacies within supermarkets that aren't
> currently tagged in any way. Currently the tool will pick up
> pharamacy=yes, but I'm open to other options is there's a better way
> of adding this information to e.g. a shop=supermarket.
>
> 3/ There seem to be a number shops (particularly Superdrug stores)
> tagged as amenity=pharmacy that aren't on the register. I presume
> these are chemist / drug-store type outlets that do not have
> dispensing pharmacies. Do we want to agree on whether these should be
> tagged as shop=chemist or amenity=pharmacy + dispensing=no ?
>
> 4/ Should stores like larger Boots (which have a lot more besides the
> pharmacy counter and off-the-shelf medicines) be tagged as
> amenity=pharamcy or shop=chemist + pharmacy=yes, or something else, or
> should it depend on the individual store?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert.
>
> [1] http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/progress/
> [2]
> https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_access_defibrillator_loca
> [3]
> https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_access_defibrillator_loca_2
> [4]
> https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/re_use_request_for_register_of_p
>
> --
> Robert Whittaker
>
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