Comment by zeteo | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zeteo | Hacker News Reader

The Google Maps location that is ventured around (starting with Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8487... ) is not the actual location of the compound.

There are aerial photos of the compound in the briefing obtained by ABC news:

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Graphics%20for%20backg...

Based on these photos and looking around the area, I've found the actual location of the compound, which exactly matches the photos from the briefing:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&#...

It's still in the area, but a bit further from the Pakistan Military Academy and in the SW direction from it (not NW, as the Telegraph map claims).

its interesting that this is in such an urban area. if it happened in some remote cave it is unlikely that we'd know much about his living conditions - beyond what the government chose to let us know.

since it is in a city environment such as this neighbors, post-mortems on the building and things like that will likely give us a much better idea about what was going on there.

makes you wish the troops had GoPros, doesn't it?

They've got way better than GoPros. You just wont see the video until election time, when it's 'leaked'.

I'm not sure your location is the correct one. In the ground photos, you can see high-tension wires running near the compound; your don't appear to have any. And the compound is in the middle of a residential area (there's video from @ReallyVirtual on YouTube), with houses on all directions; yours is pretty isolated.

Google Maps has a slightly older picture. The whole neighbourhood has been under development in the last decade, with bin Laden's compound being built around 2005 and other houses coming up around it afterwards (you can notice the differences in the sequence of photos in the briefing, too). Considering the lay of the roads and the exact shape and orientation of the compound it can be said with virtual certainty that this is the correct location.

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