I work with a guy out in Montana who does R&D for the Forest Service putting together technology for wildland firefighters in the mountains. This is the same guy who lived next to the National X-mas Tree. He does things such as put cameras and wireless networks on UAVs. He has been a long time proponent of using Google Earth for work and has ties back to the Keyhole guys. When high resolution satellite imagery of Missoula became available he made a phone call and an update appeared in the public version of Google Earth.
So he decided to leave his own mark. He owns some land in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana and mowed "AFF" in his backyard. AFF is an application that provides real-time geospatial information to dispatchers, aviation managers, and incident commanders. It uses Google Earth to display the geospatial information.
The picture below is from a private satellite. Once the image is publicly available he'll have Google update the quad in Google Earth. Then when you zoom to Bob's backyard while using AFF you can see his AFF lawn sculpture.
You could paint your roof but without connections it might take a few years to appear in Google Earth. Google recently released the Google Maps street view for DC. I checked my walking routes and they didn't capture me. It appears the Google spy car drove around DC two winters ago.
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