[OSM-talk] [RFC] shop = chemist

[Ulf Lamping]

David James schrieb:
> On Wed, January 9, 2008 7:30 am, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>   
>> There's an RFC about shop=chemist, please have a look at:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Chemist
>>
>> 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.
>   
... in missing of a better descriptive word? Oh man :-(
> 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.
>   
So I still need a good term for those shops that you seem to have in 
england as well, "superdrug" and "Boots" may be good examples (at least 
the shops not dispensing :-). I think "The body shop" also falls under 
this category.

I hesitate to use the german word drogerie for it, this won't be very 
recognisable internationally.


Any ideas for a better term than "health and beauty"?

Regards, ULFL