Investigating the location of the WUMB transmitter, Doc Searls notes that while the Live Maps birdseye view is awesome, it’s way too hard to find and share. John Udell picks up the thread and suggests a workaround, but that’s not the point of my mentioning this.

Personally, I haven’t had much of a problem navigating in Live Maps, but I have had no end of problems figuring out how to work with “collections”, and get GeoRSS and/or KML streams of the collections I create. I always have to go back to the blog entries I’ve bookmarked to remember how to make the site do what I want it to do, and I’m probably a more savvy user than their target audience. It’s a shame because the Virtual Earth group has been coming up with some terrific stuff in the last year or so.

So to paraphrase Godspell — via the Bible — my message to the Virtual Earth team is, stop hiding your light under a bushel and re-think that UI my friends.