So, where did Grandma live? Satellite pictures of neighborhoods, in color, are available! However, there is this Alert! Google worked fine a couple of times, BUT, as I discovered, it is in BETA testing. BETA means it is not quite ready for "prime time". Google is still working out all the bugs involved with so many combinations of operating systems and browsers. Unfortunately, "buyer beware"... My system hung up several times, requiring painful re-boots... I find that when you go to Google, do nothing until the web-page settles down. Then enlarge, if you have to. Otherwise, if you mess with the page too quickly, the screen map image will be condensed. At the top left there are <- -> arrows which allow you to maneuver the map in all four directions. Below those arrows is a "barometer" which allows you to zoom in or out, with the minus sign going towards the moon, and the plus sign zooming in towards the earth. Also, sorry to say, the maps are NOT of the whole USA. Probably just the major population centers. I tried Heber Springs, Arkansas, and it politely said that it cannot zoom in as close as the street map displayed. It said, though, to keep trying at a further distance. Eventually the color pic came thru, but it was not desirable... If you look at Chicago, the image covers a rectangle of 8 blocks: in the southwest side of Chicago, of 2 blocks north and south by 4 blocks east and west. For example, at closest range, the photo shows 30th to 32nd and Halsted to Normal. On my monitor it covers a screen area of about 5.5 by 8.5 inches. You can see what the neighborhood looks like from the sky in color, altho it is mostly on the dark side. I don't know when the pics were made, but my home was photographed over a year ago. (I saw a car in my driveway that was sold in January of 2004, after being there several years.) Thanks to an old friend, Valentine, for this tip: http://maps.google.com/ When you get to the site, enter your: "City, ST" in quotes and press Search. Then use the arrows and the +/- for honing in on your target. You may also left click and move the map around. That normal looking map can be useful, but if you click on Satellite in the upper right hand corner, you will get the color picture. ALSO, you can print it and/or e-mail it! Thanks again, Valentine. Dave Witthans