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<p>Bob,</p>
<p>Glad to be of assistance.</p>
<p>One tiny word of warning when you add role=outer: please make sure you do it to ALL the ways (without a role) in a relation, because a mix of empty roles and role=outer in the same relation will definitely cause more problems than simply having empty roles!</p>
<p>You may be interested in my page where I have consolidated my notes on UK admin boundaries in OSM: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries</p>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Colin</p>
<p>On 2016-01-17 19:59, Bob Hawkins wrote:</p>
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<div>Colin</div>
<div>The answer might lie with role=outer. I applied it to Nettlebed in JOSM as a test, uploaded the change and ran a new query in Overpass turbo. Nettlebed appears as a polygon now. It seems I should apply it to all my cases for best practice, as you write, because it does appear other software might be adversely affected by its absence.</div>
<div>I thank you for your constructive input.</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">With regards</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Bob</span></div>
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