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Just saw it on Ricardo Saramago’s blog: Microsoft’s Virtual Earth-powered Windows Live Local preview. Prepare to drool. 
Impressive technology, certainly, and it’s nice to see that MS can do something “cool” without restricting it to Internet Explorer, requiring ActiveX, being Windows-only, and so on.
Of course, I doubt that 1) this will ever have more than a few places, and 2) this will actually be of use to someone, in place of a GPS navigation system, or even as a Google Earth competitor. It’s great, however, to impress other people, as they’ve surely never seen anything like this.
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1. It’s just a copy of A9’s Maps: http://maps.a9.com/
2. It’s completely broken with Safari, and half working with Firefox.
3. Congrat Europe and the stupid monopoly on georeferenced data, which restricts us to do anything that resembles that.