Hester - 4:31 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

The birds' eye view of New York is impressive! They are using planes rather than satellites for greater detail, but only in certain cities.

Pretty cool! Google has a new competitor!

I am glad to report it works in Opera 9 too, bar an error message which doesn't affect it.

There's a part that requires ActiveX, but you can choose to use your IP address instead to get round this, at least on first glance.