A town on New York's Long Island is using Google Earth to find backyard pools that don't have the proper permits.



The town of Riverhead has used the satellite image service to find about 250 pools whose owners never filled out the required paperwork.

Violators were told to get the permits or face hefty fines. So far about $75,000 in fees has been collected.

Other creative uses of Google Earth by some other people:

• Property Tax Assesors using Google Earth: A person in USA got a call from a tax assessor asking him to pay property taxes and fines. He contacted the assessor and they produced photos of his property showing where he had built new structures on his property without permits or reporting a change in value to his property. Where did the photos come from? Google Earth!
• Property Tax Assesors using Google Earth: Chris, a young entrepreneur started a pool service and cleaning business and thanks to Google Earth, his business is doing very well. Rather than just sending a mailer to every house in a neighborhood, Chris got onto Google Earth and found the neighborhoods with the most pools. Then he drove out and wrote down the addresses of each house with a pool. He then used that mailing list to do more targeted marketing of his services.

Sounds really interesting and as ideas are nobody's monopoly, you can also think of something like this and get an edge over your competitors. Act fast as Google is changing this world at an astonishing pace!!

I would also like to know your brilliant ideas in comments...

Via: Fox