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Google Earth comes to the iPhone

Sagittarius   on 27 October 2008 - 17:54 · 26 comments & 9404 views

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No doubt many of you have frittered away several hours through the sheer exploration possibilities offered by the Google Earth program. Perhaps some of you may even have wished you could have this little application everywhere you go. If so, then you're in luck: in a posting on Google's LatLong blog, Product Manager Peter Birch announced that the Google Earth application is making its debut in the iTunes App Store today (available here).

According to Mr. Birch, the iPhone's touch interface provides a very natural way for to interact with the interface. Swiping your fingers will move the map around, while pinching in and out controls the zoom. Using the iPhone's GPS, users can instantly go to their current location in the application. In addition, Panoramio integration allows users access to over eight million user submitted photos of locations.

A handy video tour was included in the posting:


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#1 Marshalus on 27 Oct 2008 - 17:55
I've been playing around with it and found it to be a bit sluggish, even on Wi-Fi.
(1 reply) #2 Nestea_M@n on 27 Oct 2008 - 18:03
For those who have tried it. Does the GPS on it really work? also, doesn't matter if it is a bit sluggish, it's a pretty cool concept

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#2.1 Marshalus on 27 Oct 2008 - 18:15
Nestea_M@n said,
For those who have tried it. Does the GPS on it really work? also, doesn't matter if it is a bit sluggish, it's a pretty cool concept

Neztea


Yes, the GPS works. Not sure how it being sluggish doesn't matter?
#3 vetSHoTTa35 on 27 Oct 2008 - 18:24
wow... nice stuff
#4 sin-ergy on 27 Oct 2008 - 18:37
It's neat but way too slow to be of any use. And it just crashed on me within 2 minutes of using it. Bah!
#5 dhan on 27 Oct 2008 - 19:01
I would use it if stopped crashing on me.
It works fine on a friend's iphone though.
#6 +Xerxes on 27 Oct 2008 - 21:18
Not bad, but I find it hard to navigate, sluggish and it crashes all the time.
#7 +kraized on 27 Oct 2008 - 21:52
It is a bit sluggish but even the desktop version can be sluggish for me. GPS works flawlessly though. Looking forward to Google improving and updating this app for the iPhone.
(1 reply) #8 Gabe3 on 28 Oct 2008 - 02:59
i wish it had street view
#8.1 +kraized on 28 Oct 2008 - 10:13
Gabe3 said,
i wish it had street view


Street View is coming in the new firmware.
#9 Digix on 28 Oct 2008 - 05:39
laggy as on first gen ipod touch lol
#10 Sam Symons Live on 28 Oct 2008 - 06:40
Not too laggy on my iPod touch 2G...very nice, although I really should've read about the tilting feature first...when I opened it for the first time I was lying down and I didn't have a clue what the heck was going on, heh.
#11 ivanz on 29 Oct 2008 - 21:36
That's nice...I've had the same options with maemo mapper on my Nokia N800 for a couple of years already...and it pulls all google/yahoo/msn sources and allows you to keep an offline cache which allows you to use it as a gps navigator with satellite imagery.
#12 shockz on 30 Oct 2008 - 19:07
The tilt thing is buggy... earth just disappears of the screen when its up straight.. occurs on a touch and iphone.
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#20 Gary Kling on 29 Oct 2009 - 10:56
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#23 Tony Gray on 31 Oct 2009 - 14:07
I am enjoying using iphone! Thanks for sharing!

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