New features:

• Bird's Eye Images
• Driving Directions
• Custom Pushpins
• New Mouse Features
• Scratch Pad Updates

Things you can do with Local Live:

• Find
• Search What and Where
• Use the Search Results Panels
• Get Details About a Listing
• Get Directions
• Add a custom Pushpin
• Use the Scratch Pad
• Set Options
• Move Around the Map 
• Use Keyboard Shortcuts 
• Using the Mouse
• View Birds Eye Images 
• View a List of Birds Eye Image Locales
• Change the Map View
• Use Locate Me to Find Your Location
• Share Your Scratch Pad
• Print Your Route and Driving Directions
• Create a Permalink
• Visit the Windows Live Local Community Page

The bird's eye imagery, provided by Pictometry, are perhaps the collest addition to the service. Imagery defaults to a North view. Users can ROTATE your view optically to really check out an area... views that aren't available are greyed out in the display. 

The imagery provides 45-degree bird's-eye views of major U.S. cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle and Las Vegas,  covering about 25 percent of the U.S. by population. The bird's- eye images are captured by Pictometry International Corp. via low-flying airplanes and then integrated with road and satellite maps to simulate 360- degree panoramas that can be viewed from four compass directions.

Links to places can be saved, albeit as a very long string. For example, check out these views of

• Las Vegas
• or NFL Stadiums
  

Impressive image of The "Bills Stadium" as seen in "Local Live"

http://local.live.com/

Community Resources:

• Developers are supported via a community resource known as Via Virtual Earth
• Windows Live Local users weblog
• http://local.live.com/