{"id":5208,"date":"2011-08-23T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/digital-world\/lol-reviews-of-gaddafis-bab-al-aziziya-residence-on-google-maps\/08-2011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:14:05","slug":"lol-reviews-of-gaddafis-bab-al-aziziya-residence-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/digital-world\/lol-reviews-of-gaddafis-bab-al-aziziya-residence-on-google-maps\/08-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"LOL: Reviews of Gaddafi\u2019s Bab al-Aziziya Residence on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apparently I was not the only person who wanted to look at Gaddafi\u2019s residence, which had just been stormed by the rebels, on Google Maps.<\/strong>The aerial images themselves are nowhere near as interesting as the reviews posted there about Gaddafi\u2019s residence over the past few days and hours. User smaklijk, for example, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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“Full of rats. I think there’s a nest of them underground. Time to exterminate the whole brood.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Here is a screenshot of the comments, followed by a link to the reviews:<\/p>\n

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Reviews of Gaddafi\u2019s Bab al-Aziziya Residence on Google Maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

And here is the link: http:\/\/maps.google.de\/maps\/place?cid=11898622079115533225&cd=1&cad=src:ppiwlink&ei=p-dTToLqOome_Aa7uMXvDA&dtab=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Update, May 2019<\/h2>\n\n

The reviews can no longer be accessed via the Google link above today. That makes the screenshot a rather nice historical snapshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently I was not the only person who wanted to look at Gaddafi\u2019s residence, which had just been stormed by the rebels, on Google Maps.The aerial images themselves are nowhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[320],"tags":[326,398,452,417,288,343,318,431,411,358],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-world","tag-digital-world","tag-find","tag-funny","tag-google","tag-hidden-gem","tag-internet","tag-link-tip","tag-lol","tag-society","tag-web","bwp-blog-post","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-1","bwp-post-has-title"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/teaser-bab-al-aziziya-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}