O'Reilly's Radar points to the side-by-side Microsoft Earth and Google Maps comparator.
There's been some weird press about MS's map not having Apple HQ, but it's interesting that in other places, Microsoft's map seems to be newer.
Check out UC Irvine which has been under a fair bit of construction. Zoom in four times, and don't pan. Check out the new computer science building in MSN, and the construction patch on Google. Follow East Peltason eastward to Palo Verde road, and check out the field that had become a construction site through most of 2004, and is now a housing complex. Not yet pictured.
There's a lot of other constuction, too.
Heck, just compare Irvine wintertime (green) to Irvine summertime (brown)...
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