Hi Robert,
As Boots' stores don't ALL have a pharmacy counter, IMHO they should be tagged
as "shop=chemist". Those that DO have a pharmacy (dispensing prescriptions)
should be additionally tagged, either with "pharmacy=yes", or with a separate
node for the pharmacy. I think that would fit with the checking that you
describe for your tool.
As regards "pharmacy type", does your data identify what I would call
"wholesale pharmacies", who have no public access, but supply medicines to
hospitals, care homes and individual customers in their homes? I know of 2 in
my area. In one case, I changed the name to "Jardines (on line)" (Node:
6409354480) and in the other to "Mediva Private Pharmacy" (Node: 6443190532),
in an attempt to make it clear that there is no public access. Could these be
excluded in future? Regards,Peter
On Sunday, 12 April 2020, 14:41:01 BST, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
<robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 18:39, Dave Love <david.l...@oxon.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 12:08 +0100, SK53 wrote:
>> > Robert Whittaker has a Pharmacy QA <https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/
>> > > site
>>
>> That shows a Boots missing which I tagged as the brand from the
>> correction iD wanted (brand=Boots shop=chemist). How should Boots be
>> tagged, and does iD need a fix? (I assume all Boots have pharmacies,
>> but maybe not.)
>
>As far as my tool at https://osm.mathmos.net/pharmacy/progress/ is
>concerned, pharmacies are recognised as OSM objects tagged with
>either>amenity=pharmacy or pharmacy=yes*. (The latter can be used on things
>like supermarkets and doctors surgeries, when things aren't mapped in
>enough detail to have a separate amenity=pharmacy node.)
>
>As for whether all Boots stores have pharmacies, I think most do, but
>some don't:
>https://www.boots-uk.com/about-boots-uk/about-boots/boots-in-numbers/
>says there are 2,465 Boots stores, but in the General Pharmaceutical
>Council register of Pharmacies, there are only 2304 premises
>registered to 'Boots UK Limited'.
>
>Robert
>
>PS: I've just noticed that the data I'm using for my tool now contains
>a "Pharmacy Type" field. This means I can exclude internet only
>pharmacies, temporary locations (e.g. for events) and internal
>hospital and prisons pharmacies. This will hopefully make the
>comparison shown by the tool must more useful.
>
>* Because of the change to exclude hospital and prison pharmacies from
>the GPhC data, OSM objects with pharmacy=yes will only be picked up in
>my tool if they do not also have amenity=hospital or amenity=prison
>too.
--
Robert Whittaker
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