iPhone Gets Google Earth

The Apple iPhone gets another nice app for the geography-loving folks out there – Google Earth. Unlike Google Maps, Earth doesn’t give you exact addresses and similar, but instead shows you a 3D terrain of the earth complete with representations of land formations such as mountains.

The Google Earth app is available free at the Apple App Store and Australia gets first crack at it, although it will be available to the rest of the globe shortly. CNET was able to play with it and so far, it seems to be a winner. There are numerous controls not possible on the computer version of Google Earth since the iPhone app made full use of the device’s touch screen display. For example, if you drag your finger across the screen, the view also movies. Tapping and pinching equates to zooming in an out of the terrains and even tilting the hardware changes the view.

Check out CNET’s full review of the Google Earth app for the iPhone here.