On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:59, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I would not recommend using "dispensary" for the tag value, because as > mentioned above, in North American English this is used for a shop which > dispenses medical marijuana, and accordign to Oxford, in British English it > means "A room where medicines are prepared and provided". > Back before the name "pharmacy" became common in the UK, we had "dispensing chemists" referring to the shop where drugs were dispensed. The Wikipedia article on dispensary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensary discusses this meaning (a place where drugs are dispensed), and no other, in its introduction. Yet for some reason, despite it not being mentioned at all in the introduction, the first section after the introduction discusses its meaning as an outpatient health facility in Kenya. Yes, this would cause confusion in OSM. -- Paul
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