On Wed, January 9, 2008 7:30 am, Ulf Lamping wrote:
Hi!
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.
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.
As I'm not a native speaker, I could need some help here :-)
I am a native speaker.
--
David James
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