Images: Microsoft maps in 3D

Live Search Maps also now shows real-time traffic and construction updates, in addition to driving directions.

Not surprisingly, in New York on Tuesday, there are "minor" delays at the Lincoln Tunnel (seen in yellow and red), and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is also slow due to construction blocking one lane. "LOL on the BQE," as traffic reporters say. (By LOL, they mean "lots of luck," not "laugh out loud.")

Photo by Microsoft/Harris/Earthstar Geographics