Minor news items from the major online mapping services.

Photos come to Google Maps — or at least photographs of businesses can appear in info windows when searching for them using local search.

The Live Maps/Virtual Earth blog has been on fire with tips and tricks for using Virtual Earth lately, such as a top 10 list of features you didn’t know about and a guide to creating a custom map layer in 10 minutes.

Yahoo is soliciting feature suggestions for its maps on its suggestion board. Interesting to see what gets proposed and which proposals get popular.