Google has announced the availability of it’s popular Google Earth for iPhone & iPod Touch. If you haven’t tried Google Earth before, it is a desktop application from Google that gives you satellite imagery of the whole earth in your fingertips.
You can spin the globe and virtually fly from one place to another with a few mouse clicks. Now, you get the same fun and imagery right in your iPhone!
Google Earth for iPhone Features
- Just swipe the screen to move from one place to another
- Tilt to adjust view to see mountainous terrain
- View Panoramio layer that lets you browse millions of geo-located photos
- With Google Local Search, search cities, places & businesses
- Fly to your current location with ‘Location’ feature
- View geo-located Wikipedia articles
- Search near me lets you search for places & businesses around you
It’s nice to see Google coming up with this app for iPhone in spite of their concentration on Android at the moment.
Google Earth for iPhone is available in 18 languages and 22 countries in the iTunes App Store. Give it a try and let us know how you like it!
Get Google Earth for iPhone or iPod Touch
[via LatLong Blog]
