Just in case you were thinking “satellite images are so hard to navigate with, I need to see a race-car driver’s view of the world”, Microsoft has launched a preview of their Virtual Earth. I am really curious about the archive challenges of this, as well as the privacy implications. Let’s say the city government wants to see what your house looked like at 6pm last Saturday night to verify a code violation. How many cameras are going to gather data and how often? Haven’t seen any online traffic about it yet…