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

[Greg Troxel]

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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