Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth go well beyond the mapping, location and search capabilities, and the adjacent Oblique (Bird's Eye), Ortho, Aerial and satellite imagery which can very easily take center stage. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is touting Virtual Earth as a fully fledged cloud platform, and Inlet (Internet-based Loss Estimation Tool) comes as an illustrative example in this regard. Defined as a "web-based loss estimation and transportation modeling platform&q