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Multimap have had a similar feature for a while too, take a look at their aerial view and then hover over the map..

Apparently Multimap thinks that size isn't important.

Try Multimap for the UK. It has much better aerial photos, and a translucent map overlay follows the mouse over the photo. It makes objects much easier to find because you can see where the roads are.

Really cool map-photo merging of Lake Windermere

Eh, no. Multimap had aerial imagery at least three years ago and they still do. Not satellite, but as far as the end-user is concerned, the effect is identical.

Sellafield is nowhere near London. It's about a 300 mile drive away according to Multimap. It's at the complete opposite side of the country.

Here in the UK, you can use Multimap to acheive something close to this.

Multimap's main use is simple as an online map, and it's used heavily here in the UK, but they do show pin-marks on the location of any services they know about.

They only show links to certain categories of service (hotels, and the like), but limited though it is, the search by location service has been available for some time.

The UK has a number of services to aid you in switching your energy supplier - these are often online services such as uswitch or saveonyourbills (and you can find even more at switchwithwhich).

So you get a name and address - can do that from the phone book, or use other means.

You create yourself a throwaway email account - ideally based somewhere that would be a complete pain to req any log data from. Maybe you also ensure theres a little more masking here - like covering up your web access.

Then go to a switch web site, enter the property details you are interested in - don't need the right name at present, just the address (postcode and house number - say SW1A2AA, number 10), and set them up for a new energy supplier - theres basically bugger all checking on this at the early stages.

You will then get from the switch website, or sent by email (thats why you need the throwaway account), confirmation of the details to change your electricity supply to the new supplier, and guess what, this includes the electricity meter reference number....

So there you are, name, address, meter reference, their identity is yours for the taking, without all that dumpster diving stuff. Is this neat or what! Whats more, its going to be very hard to get the meter reference changed.

Ditto for the poor unfortunate residents of Scunthorpe, England.

Just as well there isn't a "Clearyourbillsvile" or "Enlargeyourpenis Avenue" anywhere!