On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, James Ewen <ve6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > >> Your suggestion of shop=department_store, plus a POI for >> amenity=pharmacy, sounds ideal. Remember to add dispensing=yes, to >> the pharmacy POI if they dispense prescriptions. > > Just to sate my curiosity, what would a pharmacy sell if it didn't > dispense prescriptions? Would 7-11 be a pharmacy because they sell > Tylenol? I equate dispensing prescriptions implicitly with the term > pharmacy.
I share your reaction, James, and was surprised when I learned this from our continental cousins. To me a pharmacy isn't a pharmacy unless it dispenses prescriptions. So the pharmacies I'm familiar with should be tagged dispensing=yes. Sounds like this is your understanding as well. I've heard from mappers elsewhere, that they have non-dispensing pharmacies with off-the-shelf notions, as well as over-the-counter medicines. Apparently dispensing prescription medicines is an additional qualification not found in every pharmacy. So I guess (really, I'm just guessing here) that we don't have places where your can get over-the-counter medicine, that does not also include prescription medicines. So other jurisdictions may have two levels of pharmacist licenses, one for over the counter, and another for prescription. Or something like that. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
