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Tuesday
May032011

Will the real Osama Bin Laden compound please stand up.

In the hours after the announcement of Bin Laden's death people scrambled to Google Earth to find the location of Abbottabad, Pakistan and the compound. There were several incorrect guesses, like the example I found below, and posted Sunday night.

 

Part of the issue was that until yesterday the imagery Google had for the area was acquired in 2001, years before the compound had been built.  Yesterday Google updated their imagery to data acquired on June 14, 2005 (ZDNet).  In the 2005 data (below) the compound can be seen in an unfinished state.

Below is an image of the compound in it's current state from the CIA.

AuthorBirds Eye View GIS | DateTuesday, May 3, 2011 at 8:36AM | | Comments Off

Reader Comments (1)

Very informative writing and "bird's eye view of Osama bin Laden's compound between 2001 and 2005. I was very surprised that the Seals were able to attain their mission without a single causality. The Seals are pride of our armed services and I give then my congratulations for a job well done.

May 6, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterBird Watcher
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