Google Maps looks and feels much more like Google Earth now with its new navigation controls with Street View. Simply drag the little yellow man to see the street in a thumbnail view and then drop him to enter into Street Mode. Once in street mode you can turn a dial to move 360 degrees around and also zoom in with ease.
They also fixed some issues users were experiencing with Firefox 3. After a few minutes of use, it seems much more fluid now to use street view. Good job Google!
You can watch a video of the new Google Maps below, or you can head on over to maps.google.com and try it out for yourself!