Street Level View in Windows Live Local

Talk about cool! Have you seen the new street level images in the new Windows Live Local?

It lets you "drive" (or walk) around Seattle and San Francisco. The images are not live, but static snapshots taken every 5 feet or so as a vehicle down each the road. The pictures were taken from the front, left and right sides and the rear (and left and right rear). So you can move in any direction.

You’ll want a high speed low latency internet connection to get the true feel (my cable modem is doing a good job of keeping up), but you need to check this out...

This is just too cool!

Now all they need is someone walking with an imaging set and GPS to get all those areas not vehicle accessible... ;)

(via e-piphany - Virtual Earth gets street-level imagery...)