Talk:Tag:healthcare=pharmacy

What is the next step with this tag?

Is amenity=pharmacy the same as healthcare=pharmacy? If not, please give examples of features:
- that should have amenity=pharmacy but shouldn't have healthcare=pharmacy
- that should have healthcare=pharmacy but shouldn't have amenity=pharmacy
- that should have both tags

If it's the same, we should not use both tags.

Or is this tag going to replace amenity=pharmacy in the future?

I see here three possibilities:

1. The tags are synonyms, so only one should be used and the other one mark as deprecated. Using two tags with same meaning is groundless.

   But which one? amenity=pharmacy is older, widely used and supported in many maps and applications, whereas healthcare=pharmacy is approved.

2. The tags do not have the same meaning. So features:
   • [amenity=pharmacy]
   • [healthcare=pharmacy]
   • [amenity=pharmacy]+[healthcare=pharmacy]

   would have different meaning.

3. healthcare=pharmacy is to replace amenity=pharmacy in the future, so two are used now, then amenity=pharmacy will be removed, so double tagging is now correct. maro21 19:24, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:healthcare%3Dpharmacy#Tag_history should answer this... healthcare=pharmacy is a deliberate duplicate of amenity=pharmacy introduced in attempt to duplicate some long standing amenity values (see also healthcare=hospital) Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 20:08, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

"whereas healthcare=pharmacy is approved" this is - at most - as strong as "de facto" use. Main benefit, if any, of healthcare=pharmacy is using a special key for all healthcare-related features Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 20:10, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

I would like community to make a decision and choose one of these three options... maro21 14:21, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Only 1 and 3 are viable (2 is not true). You can try to use Proposal process or other method but I expect that neither will have a clear and overwhelming support. In meanwhile, you can simply ignore healthcare=pharmacy completely as it is not adding anything useful Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 15:12, 20 March 2022 (UTC)