<p>I just used Google Earth and managed to find where D is living in Budapest.
Used the map from Google Maps to locate the street, knew where on the street from D’s description, then used Google Earth to zero in. </p>
<p>I just e-mailed the view to TheMom, who will probably forward it to friends & relations.</p>
<p>My husband did that last fall to see where our D was living in London. It was interesting to see the neighborhood where she was living from a bird’s eye perspective.</p>
<p>Yeah, I knew I wasn’t the first…but I believe in PR.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was able to pinpont where my daughter lived in Beijing and where her “school” was in India. I couldn’t find her house in India until she got home and she helped me trace her rickshaw route home.</p>
<p>Couldn’t find her apartment in Buenos Aires because Google Earth doesn’t have the detail that they provide for India and China. Go figure.</p>
<p>One thing I learned about Google Earth is that the images ain’t necessarily all that recent. The current image of our neighborhood shows dirt roads and empty lots over in a new part of the subdivision that has been fully built out and inhabited for over two years.</p>
<p>Yeah, some of the images are as old as three years, I believe. I’ve seen local images where I was able to determine the day of the week the images were obtained, fwiw. But not the month or year. </p>
<p>But I’m waiting for GoogleEarth to tap into the market of helicopter parents by offering real-time imaging via leased bandwidth from Keyhole satellites in tandem with GPS dots implanted in students so that their location can be tracked in real time. “What is she doing <em>there</em>?”</p>
<p>If your kid has reasonable internet access you should definitely check out Skype. (Free over the internet phone conversation)</p>
<p>Another good one to try that shows more details than Google Earth is Microsoft’s Local Live but I think it only has some USA cities for now - </p>
<p><a href=“http://local.live.com/[/url]”>http://local.live.com/</a></p>