Google Earth is an invaluable tool for location scouting.  It is now available both for the Mac




as well as the PC. 




I've been playing with it for a while now on the PC.  It just dawned on me what a great way to look at potential locations.   In addition to the obvious, which is getting direction to locations, (it will actually drive the route for you), you can get an idea of possible conflicts with traffic noise from freeways.  You can look at elevations that might effect sun times as well as possible problems and solutions for lighting night exteriors. 

The amazing thing to me is that it's all free of charge.  Download a copy today and see if it might be useful to you.

If you've been waiting for Google to take over the world, they already have.