[OSM-talk] [RFC] shop = chemist

[David James]

On Wed, January 9, 2008 7:30 am, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi!
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> There's an RFC about shop=chemist, please have a look at:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Chemist
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> On the wikipedia page about superdrug, I've found the term "health and
> beauty retailer" which might be a better term than chemist.

It's not a term that I've ever heard before. It sounds like something that
sector of the industry have made up to describe themselves.

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> I'm still pretty unclear about the meaning of the dispensing tag of the
> already existing amenity=pharmacy.

In the UK context, a dispensing chemist is one that is allowed to sell
drugs which can only be issued on a prescription. (I hope I phrase that
correctly.) A prescription is issued by a doctor.

Mike Collinson has added wording to the Wiki page that may go some way to
clarifying the terms. In the UK context, as he says "For most people a
pharmacy and a chemist meant (past tense) the same thing", though I might
argue with the "past tense" - I'd still expect both a pharmacy and a
chemist to be dispensing chemists.

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> As I'm not a native speaker, I could need some help here :-)

I am a native speaker.


-- 
David James