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This press release from Microsoft flags their free downloadable MapCruncher tool. which lets users “take existing road maps and aerial imagery and overlay particular, specialized maps to create unique mash-ups tailored to the user’s specific interests.” The user maps get layered atop Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, and then registered and tiled into something useful. As far as I can tell from the examples that are liked from the Microsoft site, this is actually pretty unexciting stuff. It’s nice to be able to match up registrations, but the tool doesn’t seem to add much (any?) interactability — though I imagine that could be layered on through the API. Anyway, for those with more time than me who will want to play around with it (and hopefully report back their findings), there’s a tutorial linked here.