Images: Microsoft maps in 3D

Still lifting her lamp "beside the golden door," a replica of the Statue of Liberty can be seen while viewing a piece of the New York skyline. The turning and tilting to change views of three-dimensional objects in Virtual Earth 3D takes awhile to get used to. Microsoft offers directions, which mostly involves holding down the Ctrl key while moving the mouse, to navigate its 3D world.

Photo by Microsoft/Navteq/USGS/EarthData