[OSM-talk] Release openstreetmap-carto v2.36.0

[John Eldredge]

A lot of pharmacies in the USA serve as general merchandise stores, as well 
as selling prescription and nonprescription medicines, bandages, etc. The 
Walgreens Drugstore near my home sells food, cosmetics, toys, cell phone 
accessories, household tools, and many other items.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.



On October 31, 2015 8:34:44 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> Am 31.10.2015 um 00:22 schrieb Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:
>>>
>>> Pharmacists don't technically sell medicines they dispense it and
>>> sometimes collect a flat rate fee, if you are of working age and live
>>> in England.
>
> It's quite different in the US.   Besides paying for prescription
> medication (often with insurance, but still) a place called a pharmacy
> will have a variety of non-prescription medication and various
> associated stuff (bandages).
>
> So shop makes more sense than office, and here office makes no to little
> sense at all.
>
> I realize there's shop=chemist, but that seem to be a uk/europe vs US thing.
>
> However, the real issue is that the tags in use should be rendered.  If
> a tag is not used much and it's dropped, that's fine, but using the
> stylesheet to force retagging of things in wide use would be
> inappropriate.  I haven't seen the underlying data on tag frequency
> brought into the debate; arguably that should be the core of the
> discussion.
>
>>> THEY do sell some stuff as well, but so do the library and post office.
>
>> there is surely a huge difference in volume between the stuff a
>> pharmacy sells besides dispensing medicine and the stuff a library or
>> a post office sell, making it more of an edge case, at least around
>> here (and that's still Europe). Anyway, I don't oppose
>> amenity=pharmacy as the preferred tag.
>
> In the US, a pharmacy basically sells things, including some things that
> require a special license to sell.   library and post office do sell
> some things, but are not primarily shops in that sense.
>
>
>
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