Description
Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass.
With Google Earth for iPhone, you can:
• Tilt your iPhone to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain
• Show the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world
• View geo-located Wikipedia articles
• Use the Location feature to fly to your current location
• Search for cities, places, and business around the globe with Google Local Search
What's New in Version 2.0.1
• Binary now under 10MB so wifi is no longer require to download
• Bug fix for maps where lines follow roads
Customer Reviews
This is pretty incredible
Anyone who's used Google Earth on the computer knows how powerful, intuitive and basically awe-inspiring it is. The iPhone app gets about as close to that as can be reasonably expected. I am very impressed at the 3D rendering I'm seeing (I'm using a first gen iPod Touch, for the record) although there is some understandable lag, probably more due to my wi fi connection than the program or the iPod. Navigation is seamless and intuitive - it's really fun to hop around landmarks like the Grand Canyon in this, once you get the hang of the gestures. It's definitely worth 5 stars, although it isn't perfect - it doesn't have a built in directions option like Google Maps does, and it doesn't seem to have to options to send locations to the Google Maps application to get directions, which would be the next best thing. Hopefully that's coming in an update. You can locate businesses with this, but links will give you addresses and phone numbers and external website links, not directions integrated into the program. Also, there are only two layers now - Wikipedia and Panoramio. It doesn't seem to have street or traffic layers. I suppose they are leaving the navigation to the Maps application. Not a horrible idea, this probably improves the app's speed and reduces its size, but it would be nice to have that as an option. Still, the ability to view a highly detail 3D version of the Earth on a mobile device is worth 5 stars alone for me, even without some of the frills.
Almost Amazing
I absolutely love Google Earth! And I love that you can tilt your phone to change the perspective. What I DON'T like is that it crashes every time I search for anything, or after I search for my location. Kind of kicks you in the gut a bit. Hopefully they will fix those problems soon!
Update - This update is really messed up!
As the application zooms in from space to your present location, when it gets close it constantly moves up and down, while trying to contact the Google servers. I will have to find the previous copy, because this update is unusable! Was this tested before it went out???? You've just taken a 5 star app down to 1 star app...
- Category: Travel
- Updated Dec 09, 2009
- Current Version: 2.0.1
- 2.0.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 8.2 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Seller: Google Mobile
- © 2009 Google Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
