[Talk-GB] Q2 2020 Quarterly project GP Surgeries and health sites

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 18:39, Dave Love <david.love at oxon.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 12:08 +0100, SK53 wrote:
> > Robert Whittaker has a Pharmacy QA <https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/
> > > site
>
> That shows a Boots missing which I tagged as the brand from the
> correction iD wanted (brand=Boots shop=chemist).  How should Boots be
> tagged, and does iD need a fix?  (I assume all Boots have pharmacies,
> but maybe not.)

As far as my tool at https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/progress/ is
concerned, pharmacies are recognised as OSM objects tagged with either
amenity=pharmacy or pharmacy=yes*. (The latter can be used on things
like supermarkets and doctors surgeries, when things aren't mapped in
enough detail to have a separate amenity=pharmacy node.)

As for whether all Boots stores have pharmacies, I think most do, but
some don't: https://www.boots-uk.com/about-boots-uk/about-boots/boots-in-numbers/
says there are 2,465 Boots stores, but in the General Pharmaceutical
Council register of Pharmacies, there are only 2304 premises
registered to 'Boots UK Limited'.

Robert

PS: I've just noticed that the data I'm using for my tool now contains
a "Pharmacy Type" field. This means I can exclude internet only
pharmacies, temporary locations (e.g. for events) and internal
hospital and prisons pharmacies. This will hopefully make the
comparison shown by the tool must more useful.

* Because of the change to exclude hospital and prison pharmacies from
the GPhC data, OSM objects with pharmacy=yes will only be picked up in
my tool if they do not also have amenity=hospital or amenity=prison
too.

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Robert Whittaker