Hi  Robert,
I looked up my 2 "wholesale" pharmacies on the list.  Unfortunately, they are 
both classed as "community", so will continue to be included in your checking 
tool.
So... ...should we:a.  Continue as we are: Plot them in OSM, tag them as 
pharmacies, but give them a name that makes it clear that they are not publicly 
accessible?b.  Delete them from OSM, so that consumers don't think they are 
publicly accessible.  (But they do exist and who knows what consumers will 
really want to find?)  Then we could ask you to manually delete them from the 
checking tool (but you probably won't want to keep doing that). c.  Do 
something else?
Regards,Peter 

   >On Sunday, 12 April 2020, 18:44:35 BST, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) 
<robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote:  > > >On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 18:08, 
Peter Neale <neal...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> As Boots' stores don't ALL have a pharmacy counter, IMHO they should be 
>> tagged as "shop=chemist".  Those that DO have a >>pharmacy (dispensing 
>> prescriptions) should be additionally tagged, either with "pharmacy=yes", or 
>> with a separate node for the >>pharmacy.  I think that would fit with the 
>> checking that you describe for your tool.
>>
>Both of those will get picked up by my tool. You could also do
>shop=chemist and amenity=pharmacy together, or just amenity=pharmacy
>on it's own. The best choice will probably depend on the nature of the
>Boots branch. Some may essentially just be a pharmacy counter with a
>small range of other medicines also available. Others branches will be
>a much larger store, where the pharmacy counter is more incidental.
>
>> As regards "pharmacy type", does your data identify what I would call 
>> "wholesale pharmacies", who have no public access, but supply >>medicines to 
>> hospitals, care homes and individual customers in their homes?  I know of 2 
>> in my area.  In one case, I changed the >>name to "Jardines (on line)" 
>> (Node: 6409354480) and in the other to "Mediva Private Pharmacy" (Node: 
>> 6443190532), in an attempt to >>make it clear that there is no public access.
>> Could these be excluded in future?
>
>The data I use can be downloaded from
>https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/registers -- it's the "list of
>registered pharmacies". As of today, I'm now just keeping those with a
>Type (the last column) of either "Community" or "Temporary -
>Community/Portacabin". I think doing this corresponds most closely to
>what we'd want to tag as amenity=pharmacy in OSM. For internal
>hospital and prison pharmacies, and for internet-only pharmacies that
>you can't get prescriptions from as a walk-in customer, I don't think
>they should be tagged as amenity=pharmacy.
>
>Best wishes,>
>Robert.
>
>-- 
>Robert Whittaker

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