My talk at the Semantic Web Services Winter Retreat SWS'09 is online.

Web services in the Geospatial Semantic Web

Look here: N. 33.901944° E.70.093746°

When we applied a distance-decay model to his last known location from 2001, the FATA – or Federally Administered Tribal Area – of Kurram had the highest probability of hosting bin Laden (98%). There were 26 city islands within a 20-km radius of his last known location in northwestern Kurram. Parachinar figured as the largest and the fourth-least isolated city. Nightlight imagery also shows that Parachinar is the closest city to his last known location and by far the brightest city by nightlight intensity in Kurram. When we undertook a systematic building search in the city of Parachinar, this approach resulted in three structures that meet all six of them and 16 structures that meet five of them.
source: http://web.mit.edu/mitir/2009/online/finding-bin-laden.pdf

Sounds interesting, right? Geography Professor Thomas Gillespie claims that he can pinpoint Obama Bin Laden, using some serious spatial analysis techniques. I just briefly scanned through the paper. He is using distance decay models, and some knowledge about Osama himself (e.g. his has diabetes and needs a dialysis machine, which makes the stories about him hiding in a remote cave not really believable). Proves how important our work really is...