The other day I had the urge to look upon my childhood home. Now, that home is in another state that happens to be located on the far side of the North American continent from where I currently reside. This being the 21st century those things were not insurmountable problems. What was more of a problem was that I had no idea of the address.
After consulting with my brothers and sisters, they were able to give me the data I needed in order to not only find it on google maps, but see it through the google map street view function.