45° Imagery on Google Maps

Google maps now sports an additional view: Some of the areas covered have a bird's eye view. Yes Bing has had this for some time but I prefer Google Maps so for other who also prefer this delivery here's hoping this is just the start of a much wider service.

Areas currently covered:

Bloemfontein: South Africa
Cape Town: South Africa
Dortmund: Germany
Durban: South Africa
Johannesburg: South Africa
Nelspruit: South Africa
Oakland, CA Area
Polokwane: South Africa
Port Elizabeth: South Africa
Portland, OR Area
Pretoria: South Africa
Rustenburg Surrounding Area: South Africa
Sacramento, CA Area
San Diego, CA Area
San Jose, CA Area
Santa Clara, CA Area
Santa Cruz, CA Area
Venice: Italy

http://imgur.com/0JIaa.jpg

Link: 45° Imagery on Google Maps - Google Maps

Bing has been doing this for ages and I haven't come accross anywhere it's missing...

I even used it to take a look at the condition of a house I was interested in (before releasing it was proberbly out of date)

Example: http://www.bing.com/maps/default.asp...ster%20LE1%206