If you go to www.maps.google.com there is an amazing new feature called street view. If you look up an address and hit the "Street View" button, a golden little man will appear on the screen. Take your cursor and move him to whatever location you want to, and you will get a 360 degree view of the street on which you put him. This feature, for now, is only available for San Francisco, New York and Miami, but as google compiles more and more photographs, more towns will come on line.
This could be a fantastic tool for home buyers in the future who want to take a look at a neighborhood, before they go out and look at the house. I'm sure at somepoint Google will also link the street images to the businesses you see in the Street View.
For now, it is a great way to see where you are going if you have to meet someone in any of the above mentioned cities, or, as I did, to view the house in which you were born.
