Virtual Earth Street-level

I like playing with the bird-eye view feature in Windows Live Local. The level of detail is pretty amazing and it’s fun to try to figure out when some of the images were taken.

Now there’s something else to try: a tech preview of a street-level driving mode. Currently it only supports the City Center areas of Seattle and San Francisco but it’s still fun to explore. It reminds me of the Aspen Movie Maps project done at the MIT Architecture Machine Group (now part of the Media Lab) in the late 1970s.