[OSM-newbies] What to do about alleys?

[G H S]

>The wiki suggests to use highway=service and name as appropriate

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice



Why is everything tagged as "highway", and then often combined with types that aren't highways at all?  I would have expected something like "road=" followed by things like "highway", "alley", "residential", whatever.
 		 	   		  
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