text: If you're looking for a satellite image of a piece of residental property, quite often your county website will have free access to their GIS maps.  It's useful to know the parcel ID, but most of the sites I've seen also have an address search.  Here's the location of my county's site, for example:\nhttp://www.peoriagis.com/  The mapping link is off to the right.  It's a little cumbersome to use, but I could zoom in really far on my house - right down to being able to make out the color of the flowers in the flower pot on my back deck.