David James schrieb: > On Wed, January 9, 2008 7:30 am, Ulf Lamping wrote: > >> 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. > ... in missing of a better descriptive word? Oh man :-( > 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. > So I still need a good term for those shops that you seem to have in england as well, "superdrug" and "Boots" may be good examples (at least the shops not dispensing :-). I think "The body shop" also falls under this category.
I hesitate to use the german word drogerie for it, this won't be very recognisable internationally. Any ideas for a better term than "health and beauty"? Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
