There has been a lot of commotion regarding mapping online and the tools that should allow us to do great things. However, most if not all of these tools/maps have poor coverage. Unless you live in the USA that is in which case you'll enjoy great detail and excellent imagery.

I vote that Virtual Earth and similar products get renamed to Virtual USA until we get decent maps of the rest of the world. I'd really like to play with the API that Microsoft is exposing but I can't use USA maps only - I have no idea what to look for there. If there were European maps (and similar to that people in Asia can probably use better maps of their locale) that would be a different story.

Actually Microsoft has had excellent support for at least road maps in Europe in the shape of the MapPoint and similar products. Why can't we have at least that?