Is Google Street View good or bad?

[MineralMan]

34. Last year, when visiting my parents, who were 89 years old

at that time, the conversation turned to my mother's home when she was a child. I asked if she remembered the street address, and she did. Five minutes later, she was looking at her old house on my laptop in Street View. We spend about an hour visiting all of her old familiar places in her childhood home town, most of which looked remarkably as they did all those years ago.

I like Street View. I use it when I'm visiting an unfamiliar place to visualize the place before I go there. It makes the drive easier, since I already know what the parking is like and where the building entrance is for commercial buildings. I have to go to client meetings fairly often, and it really helps keep the process of finding the place I'm supposed to go less stressful.