Summary, sort of. Thanks for all comments!
There is no consensus, but what I've gleaned is that:
-If the driveway is long and wrong, or short and inside an urban area, delete
it.
Paul and Kevin say I should fix them. Easily said, but there are are too many
and there are whole towns needing alignment, and endless roads connecting them
that don't remotely resemble reality. No data is better than wrong data.
-Change to hwy=service, and service=driveway. I agree.
-Regarding access=private. If there is a gate, it's private. If it is a lane to
a farmhouse, it may or may not be. There are any number of reasons. The
electric meter reader. FedEx. Someone who is lost. The vet. I think the private
tag should be removed, unless the lane is posted private. I've never seen one
in decades of biking country roads. Farmers love company. If there is an
address issue, it is normally the mail box at the main road, not at the house.
-Shared lane. If there is more than one house, the lane should be fixed.
-Living Streets. This is a distinct entity and not something decided by OSM.
They are decided by local administration, and OSM should tag them only after
that. Paul suggests that there could be townhouses at the end of rural lanes in
rural Oregon. They are farmhouses and the tag is wrong. Tho I do prefer the
wrong green tag to the wrong red tag :-).
-Don't map for the renderer. Agreed, but it seems reasonable to try to make the
map look good. Mapnik is the face of OSM for most people. Paul again suggests
that I should make my own render. Why? I've spent countless hours aligning
rivers, roads, and rails with Mapnik as the guide. This makes the map look
better and may appeal more to prospective users.
Kevin says all real roads should be included, if tagged correctly. I agree.
So my plan is to change to hwy=service, service=driveway, delete private unless
posted, delete living_street where inappropriate, and have a beer.
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