[Tagging] Use of highway=track vs highway=service cemeteries, parks, allotment gardens, golf courses, and recreation areas

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 27 Feb 2021, at 01:19, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal <bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Was there a specific reason to create highway=alley?  Why aren't these considered as residential roads, just narrow ones.

there were indeed voices that preferred highway=residential, but it has only disadvantages. :)
People expect from a residential road that they can drive on it with their car, also these narrow alleys are typically not the only kind of roads in these centers, and it made a lot of sense to have a different tag in order to see the difference on the map, avoid routers sending people into these roads etc. 

Would you call this a residential road?
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicolo_Baciafemmine.jpg
or this?
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicolo_Benci_(Montepulciano)_04.jpg
this
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_vicolo.JPG
etc 

Cheers Martin 
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