OT: calling the men of Kent

Can you think of any street or district name that links Hythe to Derbyshire?

I'm puzzled because when doing a search for "Derbyshire" on Zoopla, it shows the expected county boundary on their map view, but if you scroll south and zoom in, it also includes a small area West of Folkestone, Google doesn't help find what might be the source of confusion ...

Reply to
Andy Burns
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I am puzzled why you were puzzled when an estate agent's information proved a wee bit erroneous :)

Reply to
Robin

Well, that *is* along the same lines as the response I got elsewhere, but I was just wondered *what* might be confusing the poor dears ...

Reply to
Andy Burns

Someone's coded the postcode boundaries to counties wrong?

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

Yes I saw the original thread. Beats me, but maybe there is a district known locally as this, but not reflected in the sources you have looked at. I often have problems looking for blindness related things on search engines due to the word blind. You get more if you search for visual impairment.

Its a funny old world. Have you noticed that some web sites if you read them as I do have hidden text of stuff nothing to do with the site that is presumably placed their to be found by search engines so they appear on lists that have nothing to do with the search at all. The ones I see most often is that even is=if you search for something like stupid, you get at least one that says buy cheap silly name on Ebay.

Brian

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Brian Gaff

As I said in an earlier post, if I wanted my property site to come up in all the searches I'd be damned sure that in black ink onblack paper in my site I'd list every concievable district of the uk so google or other search engines would see it but humans would not. Brian

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Brian Gaff

too logical, not its got to be one web site with lots of hidden keywords. Brian

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Brian Gaff

I've certainly seen white text on a white background to "stuff" extra keywords into the page, it generally shows up when you select the text on a page, but I thought google penalised people on the rankings for tricks like that now?

Reply to
Andy Burns

I appreciate that you couldn't see my example image, and wouldn't be able to see the map results on the site itself, but this isn't an example of "keyword stuffing".

It's a search for properties in a named county, which shows all the expected ones plus some a hundred miles away, in a second neatly bounded and shaded polygon. If I ask it for properties within a given radius of Derby none of them show up, just if I ask for the county of Derbyshire.

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Andy Burns

Sorry about that.

I'd suspect, as Owain said, a mistake in the attribution of postcodes to counties. Looks as if someone has put the CT21 district in Derbyshire as well as in Kent.

Or of course there's the foil-wrapped explanation that Zoopla are looking to maximize profit in a low volume market by getting estate agents to pay to have properties on their "patch" appear in searches which don't cover it :)

Reply to
Robin

In message , Andy Burns writes

Isn't the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway in Kent?

Reply to
Bill

In message , Bill writes

Ooops, forget it. Faded brain syndrome.

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Bill

It is, but I don't see any Derbyshire connection ... I think Robin more or less has it that properties with CT21 postcodes on their system are erroneously linked to Derbyshire.

Reply to
Andy Burns

Folkestone is CT, Derbyshire is DE

can't quite see the possibility for a tiny mistake here

tim

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tim...

Maybe they have a train called the Derbyshire? No perhaps not besides who wants to live in a train. Brian

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Brian Gaff

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Bob Eager

I think their coding of counties is terrible. For instance, here's Lincolnshire, from which Skegness is omitted but includes a pointy chunk of the Wash.

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Likewise, they have something against Rainham in Essex as well as some very strangely shaped sea off Foulness:

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My guess is those two towns have been mis-coded and so don't appear. Seems like they're geting it from some postcode database and then drawing very coarse straight lines, which causes some strange effects.

Interestingly, the search and the drawn area seem to be different things - eg for Northumberland it finds places in Seahouses and Swinton that's outside the area:

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Derbyshire is the only one I found lucky enough to have an exclave, though...

Theo

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Theo

Nice though. And until you see a human next to one of the engines, they look amazingly like a full size engine/tender from further away.

See:

and scroll down somewhat more than halfway to see some typical images.

Reply to
Tim Streater

Oh, I know. I've been there!

Reply to
Bob Eager

It's not that simple. The map includes a large chunk of Greater London in Essex - with Rainham a leftover. But AFAICS it's not the LCC boundary nor one of the historical boundaries. But it's only an estate agent so why worry? And I say that as an Essex boy :(

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Robin

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