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

Peter Neale nealepb at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Apr 12 17:08:28 UTC 2020


Hi Robert,
As Boots' stores don't ALL have a pharmacy counter, IMHO they should be tagged as "shop=chemist".  Those that DO have a pharmacy (dispensing prescriptions) should be additionally tagged, either with "pharmacy=yes", or with a separate node for the pharmacy.  I think that would fit with the checking that you describe for your tool.
As regards "pharmacy type", does your data identify what I would call "wholesale pharmacies", who have no public access, but supply medicines to hospitals, care homes and individual customers in their homes?  I know of 2 in my area.  In one case, I changed the name to "Jardines (on line)" (Node: 6409354480) and in the other to "Mediva Private Pharmacy" (Node: 6443190532), in an attempt to make it clear that there is no public access.   Could these be excluded in future? Regards,Peter 

    On Sunday, 12 April 2020, 14:41:01 BST, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 >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.

--
Robert Whittaker

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