On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 20:40, Peter Neale <neal...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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?
I certainly wouldn't advocate any inappropriate tagging just to keep my tool happy! So if we don't think they should be amenity=pharmacy, then we shouldn't tag them like that. While they may technically be pharmacies, I would think that amenity=pharmacy is best reserved for places that are amenities for the general public to use, which would rule out option (a). As for (b), I wouldn't necessarily delete the objects completely from OSM: if there's a business presence on the ground, that could still be tagged. The question then is whether it's worth tweaking my tool to remove these false positives. You could just ignore the "missing pharmacy" markers local to you that you know are wrong. As you say, I would have a manually maintained "ignore" list, but that would be more effort for me. What I'd prefer to to is to switch to a better data source for my pharmacy list. There is a list of NHS-contracted pharmacies at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/e373eb6a-fffd-48e5-b306-71eb17f97af2/pharmacies which I think would closer match what we want for amenity=pharmacy, but unfortunately that list appears to be England only. So I'd need to find corresponding lists for Wales and Scotland. (NI isn't in the data I'm currently using. I've found https://www.psni.org.uk/registration/premises-registration/changes-to-the-premises-register/ but the data is all locked up in PDFs.) Can anyone help out here? Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb