Tag:healthcare=optometrist

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Optometrist adjusts some trial lenses on a Guyanese girl at the Timehri Primary School in Georgetown, Guyana.jpg
Description
An optometrist's office Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: health
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may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
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Status: approvedPage for proposal

The tag healthcare=optometrist is used to map an optometrist's office. Optometry is a health care profession that involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities as well as prescribing and selling of the correction of refractive error with glasses or contact lenses.

See instead shop=optician for a shop of an optician, which sells prescription lenses (glasses), and amenity=doctors + healthcare:speciality=ophthalmology for an ophthalmologist's office (a physician who specializes in surgical and medical treatment of eye disorders)

How to map

Set a node node placed at the centrepoint of the facility, or draw as an area area drawn around the perimeter.

Add healthcare=optometrist and the name=*, if there is a commonly used name.

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