Google States

I'd like to call your attention to another web site: Bill Guffey's States project. He made a small painting for every state in the US, using Google Street View as a reference. It's a great idea. As he says:

I did this series to show what might be accomplished by using the technology that is available to us today...I'm hoping some good may come out of this series, that Google will allow, i.e. give permission, to artists working in traditional methods (no digitally altered art) to use Streetview as source for reference material. This would open up an entire world for artists that are disabled and confined to their homes or facilities, or with restricted mobility.

Go check out his work.