Relation not showing up in OSM search or Nominatim

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I recently reverted a deletion for San Francisco County and can see the relation here:

It also shows up in Overpass using this query:
[out:json];
relation[wikidata=Q13188841];
out tags;

However, when I do a search on the OSM website for San Francisco County, California, it doesn’t show up:

And when I try to do a Nominatim lookup it doesn’t show up:
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/lookup?format=jsonv2&osm_ids=R396487

I suspect the OSM search function uses Nominatim and if that’s correct then is there a reason Nominatim doesn’t see the relation? Or something I can do to get it to show up?

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It seems to be working now: Nominatim Demo

I suspect that Nominatim simply hadn’t caught up with your edit when you checked. There is a daily maintenance window between 2am and 4am UTC where Nominatim falls behind on updates and your edit fell in the middle of that. If you look at the upper right side of https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org, you’ll find the date, when Nominatim has last consumed data. If it is behind, give it a few hours to catch up.

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Ah, ok – I thought Nominatim updated every minute, but I hadn’t thought about a maintenance update delaying that.

I’ll know to check that first for any troubles in the future.

Thanks!

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