What's Your Favorite Map?

Google's acquisition of Panoramio, a location based photo service, adds yet another dimension to its Maps product that neatly dovetails into the new street level views it just released (see Google Maps Hits the Streets). Rain City Guide reminds us that Microsoft has not been sitting still on this front either. The race to ground level is definitely on between the two giants.

Strangely absent in this arms race however is Yahoo; product development is quiet and their Maps API has sat largely ignored.

Map mashups play such an integral part of Real Estate 2.0 and since most real estate brokers incorporate map-based searches into their web sites somewhere, I'm curious  which of the big three Maps people prefer? Is it Google, MS Virtual Earth or Yahoo? Are there any compelling reasons to pick one over the other to develop a new site?

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