Very cool, though it would seem to be an insurmountable task to make and maintain this sort of feature for a lot of towns in the U.S., and unless Joe Blow from Any Town, USA can check out his own street this isn’t really going to be useful past being an internet curiousity.

There’s something really creepy about this.  I don’t like the thought of Yahoo sending its minions out to photograph my house (for the record, my house is not there either...yet).  Are photographs of the street really any more useful than maps and satellite pictures?

Good post. Another cool thing with maps.google.com is if you geocache or have Lat/Long information. For example you can enter

N 44° 02.157, W 123° 10.119

where you would normally put an address and - ta da - Google takes you there. Click the Satelitle button to check the terrain. Way cool!

Yes, I use the lat/long and satellite imagery for that very purpose.  It is also very handy for puzzle caches.  Once you solve the coordinates, popping them into google maps and seeing it locate in the middle of a park gives you a little more confidence in your figuring.