Yes, it is typical for the long tail of tag values to be misspellings or 
variations in capitalization or dashes vs. underscores.
For each of these, there are fewer than 10 values worldwide - not really 
alarming.  I think people clean them up sometimes.

Anyway, you find all kinds of interesting stuff on taginfo :)

Thanks, Bryan



> On Mar 12, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> "On 12 March 2018 at 13:02, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.com> wrote:
>> Searching https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surface#values for “rubber”
>> turns up a few alternatives
> 
>> rubber 258
>> rubbercrumb 170
>> Rubber 7
>> rubberized 6
>> recycled_rubber 6
>> rubber_mulch 4
>> rubber_crumb 3
>> rubber_grass 3
> 
> Whatever the correct value turns out to be, there's an alarming level
> of redundancy there.
> 
> "Rubber" and "recycled_rubber" should both be "rubber".
> 
> "rubbercrumb" and "rubber_crumb" are clearly the same concept.
> 
> I wonder if this is typical across most of our tag values?
> 
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> Andy Mabbett
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> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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