Not sure when they did this, but Microsoft has greatly updated their Mappoint site, calling it Live Local. The Mappoint links from GC.com direct you to this new site. I would say it is pretty impressive, sort of a cross between Mapquest and Google Maps, with better aerial photography than Google. In a few places, they have what they call “Bird’s Eye View”, which is sort of an “EXTREME CLOSEUP” aerial view. Believe it or not, they have this feature in Rock County, which I discovered when researching a virtual cache called The Crossing. For this cache, the fully zoomed aerial looks like:

The Bird’s Eye looks like this:

To play with this yourself, try hitting the Mappoint link from this cache.

[This message has been edited by Team Deejay (edited 04-13-2006).]