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

[Jez Nicholson]

I'm sort of pleased that the ENS has at least listened to the UK mappers,
who used both pharmacy and chemist, and not imposed their own views.

Just as a supermarket can have a pharmacy in it, Boots chemist stores have
a separate pharmacy counter. So could/should they have their own node? This
would hook in to the FHRS where I think there can be separate records for
the main store and the pharmacy counter.

On Mon, 25 May 2020, 19:42 Cj Malone via Talk-GB, <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> I think a lot of the confusion comes from the name suggestion index (some
> of the presets for iD) listing Boots twice. However basically all (if not
> all) of Boots in the UK are pharmacies, because they do prescriptions. In
> some regions this is not the case, Boots without prescriptions is a chemist.
>
> In the UK it's more obvious using Superdrug as an example, some stores do
> prescriptions, some don't. If Superdrug does prescriptions it may be
> amenity=pharmacy or it may have a separate node for the pharmacy, with
> different contract details and opening times, but I don't think this is
> usually worth it for small shops.
>
> Supermarkets on the other hand, I would have there pharmacies as separate
> nodes, partly for the above, different details. But also because the
> location inside the store can be massively helpful for people who just want
> the pharmacy, not the supermarket. See Sainsbury's with a Lloyds Pharmacy
> inside it https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6868601075 Tesco with a
> Tesco pharmacy inside https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6841571554
>
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