Google offers "Google Earth" for free.
http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html
You can enter any address in the world and it will display a satellite image.
If you pan to the right of the screen there is a little figure of a person.
Click and drag it onto the map.
You will now be in street mode.
You can look around, look up look down and advance up or down the road.
Try looking up this downtown area in New Jersey.
425 Bloomfield Ave. Montclair, NJ.
Explore a typical NJ downtown for modeling ideas. Tree, flowers, canopies, signs etc.
Look up
40 Lackawanna plaza, Montclair, NJ
View and explore around the End of the line for the DL&W Montclair branch.
No longer part of the railroad.
Walking in perspective gives you a whole new view of modeling that can make our models more real that 2D pictures.
Screen shot of construction site. (Don't forget the cop!)
Enjoy!
