When making important decisions, like investing in property or booking a vacation, people feel most comfortable when they are confident that their decisions are well-informed. Pictures contain a lot of information that might be difficult or impossible to put into words, so there is a significant value in being able to visually experience a distant location before accepting the expense of visiting. By making virtual tours of remote locations a practical possibility, the SightMap® video log of street-level images can contribute to the usefulness and competitive appeal of online tourism 
services and provide a value-added solution for business intelligence applications geared toward real estate brokers, analysts and developers.
