Has anyone played with the "Street-side" images currently in preview on the local.live.com site?

I am curious if this is the same team or company who shot these images that supplied the A9.com maps Blockview images ( http://maps.a9.com/ ) a couple years ago. Somehow I think the A9 site is a bit easier to navigate and they have a lot more cities.

Links --

http://preview.local.live.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/arch...28/540724.aspx
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/28...e-street-side/
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=166518

Eric

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