Different Uses for Google Earth

Google Earth and Google Maps have been updated with not only high-resolution satellite images for Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs (where I live) but there are also street maps as well...

Recently I've been able to put the imagery to good use, in a slightly unusual way =)

The TV reception at my place has been sketchy lately, and with using digital TV, it's all or nothing. As luck would have it, it was the ABC and SBS that were most affected, and with Big Brother on recently, there's been nothing to watch on telly.

Searching on Google Earth, I was able to visually locate the TV transmission towers on Mount Dandenong, and locating my house as well, I was able to draw a line between the two and work out the exact direction for the antenna to be pointed in - as luck would have it, it was pretty much exactly aligned along the direction my house is facing =)