It helped me househunt a year and a half ago, here in Norway. It helped me help my sister househunt in Arizona! That was cool, combined with the vitual tours of the houses that the real estate people had online, I felt like I was right there with her.
I was able to show my young son where I lived in New Zealand. My husband travels the world, so once, he phoned me from Korea and said, ‘I don’t have internet here, can you tell me where I am?’ After I stopped laughing, I got online, looked up where his hotel was and was able to recommend to him where to go for dinner and sightseeing and where he could hire a bicycle to do a bit or touring around. (because of a conference being held in his destination city, he ended up staying a few km north of what he was familiar with from previous trips. He had fallen asleep on the taxi and woke up COMPLETLY disoriented. It was hilarious!)
And, just today, my husband pinned on his facebook that he was at a particular pub last night in Oslo that I hadn’t heard of, so I google earthed it, to see the street it was on. (Nice of him to go out for me on my birthday while I sat home sick with the kid.)