Now a lot of you must have seen Microsoft launch its live local service that lets you obtain images of most locations in the united states. I definitely liked the ideas like bird’s eye view and scratch pad that they came up with. Chandu Thota has written some more details about this service on his blog but there was a lack of information in the launch that caught my attention!

I tried getting bird’s eye view of some locations in and around mountain view…service did not work for me … now I know that microsoft is trying to get more than just a bird’s eye view of the mountain view folks these days!! struck me as quite an Irony that their new maps service did not offer them in my first attempt though

After a few minutes, it was back to normal again and I could see some good 40 degree views of the san francisco downtown! I like this service!