Google Earth Review
Google Earth successfully squashes the desktop app you know and love to pocket size. Sure, processor-intensive features like 3D buildings and weather are missing, but you can view optional 3D terrain and tappable links to attractions, Panoramio photos, and even Wikipedia articles relevant to the location you’re virtually visiting. Text searches show address book contacts first, followed by results from your search history (you won’t have to type “Yucatan Peninsula” every time you want to find it).
Funny...the Grand Canyon looked bigger in the brochures.
If you just want to explore, drag and pinch to rotate, tilt, and zoom the globe and landscape. The view’s fine on an iPhone, but you’ll want to do most of your globe-hopping on an iPad, where there’s more room to see the sights.
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Google Earth (iPhone+iPad)
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Google
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