I came across this first app from the earthware blog this week - London Executive Property Bird at first glance is just another Virtual Earth Real Estate app (JaveRea) but it is very well designed and contains some great UX touches like pin clustering. You can read the story of the company behind it in SQM Magazine this month on page 56. yes, its that kind of magazine with pages and all.

With Birds Eye Tourist in hibernation for nearly a year Virtual Globetrotting has been the place to go for online sky spotting. And the gang at VG do an amazing job running that site; its very well organized and has easy to consume feeds for just about everything. and now there's a new kid in town picking up where BET left off with the longer format posts - Meet Virtual Birds Eye. VBE is a little more of a traditional blog featuring tutorials and detailed posts like this one on how to use Mapcruncher and Virtual Earth to view seating a the Indianapolis motor speedway. I hope they continue to focus on this type of content.

Next up is this flash based map for travel planning at Planet Eye. Its not just Flash for the sake of flash, but they use the tools at hand for some very useful effects.

And finally, I've been really enjoying this Silverlight based KML editor from IDV Solutions. read some background on the app on their blog here.