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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
