The tag amenity=pharmacy was approved in 2006 and since then has been the consensus tag for mapping pharmacies.
I propose to deprecate the recently-created tag healthcare=pharmacy, which was added as a preset in one editor application about 2 years ago, and therefore is often automatically added to features mapped with amenity=pharmacy by new users. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Deprecate_healthcare%3Dpharmacy The tag amenity=pharmacy has been widely used for 14 years to map pharmacies ("a shop where a pharmacist sells prescription medications"), and it has already been approved for this purpose. This proposal seeks to clarify that amenity=pharmacy remains the approved tag to use, and therefore the newer duplicate healthcare=pharmacy should be deprecated. While pharmacies are somewhat healthcare-related, but they are also shops. In many countries they sell a variety of items, in addition to prescription pharmaceuticals, and sometimes serve as convenience shops (e.g. in the USA). Therefore, they are not exactly shops, nor exactly like a healthcare facility. The original key amenity=* is a reasonable choice. This has been confirmed with extensive usage of amenity=pharmacy by mappers and database users: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/amenity/pharmacy So why are some pharmacies also tagged with healthcare=pharmacy? The history is that healthcare=* tags were introduced by the healthcare proposal. Originally the proposal authors suggested to deprecate amenity=pharmacy and replace it with shop=pharmacy, but due to strong opposition to deprecating amenity=pharmacy, that idea was abandoned in 2010. However, later the tag healthcare=pharmacy started to be used later anyway, with intention by some mappers to deprecate amenity=pharmacy. This tag has almost exclusively been added to amenity=pharmacy features, not used alone. Almost all instances of healthcare=pharmacy were added in the past 2 years, due to a change in presets in one editor application. Approving this proposal will re-affirm the previous approval of amenity=pharmacy. This will make it clear that healthcare=pharmacy is not needed and should be deprecated. -- Joseph Eisenberg
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