14 hours ago I added this relation
As a member of this relation
I cleared browser cache, but when I open the second relation in the main osm website, the ways added through the first relation aren’t highlighted in orange.
Is this because of a lag in data rendering or have I not done things properly
I think it’s because the map takes longer to update (i.e. more than a few minutes) at zoom levels this low
You’re using the OSM site’s built-in geometry viewer. It doesn’t do what you would like it to do - it doesn’t show the combination of all of the geometries of the included relations. It only shows the geometry of the current relation (the ways that it directly contains).
The relation 4610574 named “Extent of Indian Claim” contains some ways and some relations. Only the ways have geometries themselves and only those are shown in orange on this site. One of the relations that it includes is 9575758 named “Extent of Indian Claim in Western Kashmir”, and if you view that on its own on osm.org you will see the geometry of that relation.
That rather depends on what you are hoping to achieve. If it is to “create a map showing the boundaries of India as the current Indian government would like them to be” then you probably want a drop-in replacement for the current India relation (the outers and inners of which are all ways). You’ll use that drop-in replacement at the time that you create a database to create raster tiles from, or create vector tiles using something like Tilemaker.
I wasn’t trying to do anything really. I just stumbled upon the relation, saw that it looked incomplete and couldn’t resist the urge to try and fix it.
