Just a little hint to anyone interested in knowing the geographic locations of their stories to the "T".
Take a look down at
http://earth.google.com/. It's a program that runs a digital render of the planet earth, the pictures are from several different satellites, some are more precise than others, but in most parts of the United states you can find your house and see the car in the driveway and the neighbor walking the dog...
Point being, I use it for my prose, it's easy to use, efficient and accurate when you need to find things reffering to distance or locations on the globe.
The best part is that the pictures can be clear to the point where you can use them to help you describe the dark alley your character just walked down. If someone from that local area ever reads your story he would probably recognise the areas of importants if you describe them via the information on Google Earth, which brings amazing realism to the storyline.
Anyway, just a heads up to any writers out there.
Enjoy.
