hello windows live local- (i'm cheating on google)

with all my google blogs, it must seem like i'm dating google (or at least sleeping with it). well, i've been seeing someone new, google. you should know.

i found windows live local today (probably everyone has already seen it, but i was a wll virgin until just now).

when you search for an address, you can zoom in farther than with google, you can still see street names even at the zoomed-in-iest level, you can make notes on the map and you can create a permalink, so you can show people exactly how you saw/marked it.

then, for some areas, you can get a bird's eye view- which means you can see it close up from any direction.

here is an amusement park bird's eye view.















check out this 'birds eye tourist' site to see all the possible sites for this magic.

damn, this is cool.