OT: calling the men of Kent

This site seems to be hosed in some fashion - the download links don't work.

Take the 'Free Download' link to

You then have to tick the 'download' box on the right of the item description, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click 'continue' then give and email addy for them to send a download link. OS, making OpenData as difficult as they can.

Duh! Thanks for that. Turns out the window wasn't wide enough so I didn't even see the download box. Downloaded OK now.

I was curious to verify that the Royal Mail has our postcode in exactly the right place - various people's SatNavs (ours included) put our postcode about half a mile away from where it actually is, so I guess it's an out-of-data SatNav issue rather that the Royal Mail database being incorrect.

I think the postcodes are usually set at the centroid of the group of properties covered, so it may be that far out in non-urban areas. My postcode covers most of the hamlet, anyone following a sat-nav ends up at the postbox in the centre, my house is 300 metres away off a nameless lane. The OS data does get the administrative areas correct, so I am located in Somerset rather than Dorset which is implied by the DT postcode.

In our case, there's at least one other postcode between ours and the location that people call from saying "Can't find your house".

Bit late to this, but I live on the edge of that region, and that map clearly shows the entire CT21 postcode district.

Database cockup I feel...

I let them know, and it's fixed now ...