Now that’s moving fast.  Microsoft just unveiled Streetside  a couple of weeks ago and already developers can start to use images from Streetside and enhanced bird’s eye.

Chris Pendleton has a blog post up detailing how to use the new features, and you can get started using the Bing Maps Platform by heading over to Microsoft.com/maps and getting a Bing Maps account, and then continue on to Microsoft Connect to download the .dlls you’ll need to start using Streetside in your own applications.