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November 4, 2006
Flash Earth - Compare Mapping Sites
Flash Earth
is a cool site that lets you enter a location and compare the imagery from Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Windows Live Local, Ask.com Maps and more. The site uses Flash, but it doesn't appear to be using official APIs to load the imagery.
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