All the imagery is now displayed on the Apple’s iPad larger device in full resolution is a magnificent thing, and while it is very appropriate to watching movies and browsing the web, in addition to features like in-map photos now appear as popovers that do not disrupt the main view, and numerous other things that makes many folks out there want to be able to play with the popular Google Earth app on it too.
The good news is that both iPad and iPhone 3GS owners can now have access to a road layer that gives street layouts to the normally very terrain-focused app, allowing you to experience the full-resolution imagery, not to mention that it uses the native iPad popover menus to let you access the settings and layers.
Version 3.0 of Google Earth also boast a few new features. The major one is that it offers native support for the sake of better images, for which it has a new toolbar, search field, and popover layers so you can choose what information you want to view while you are fiddling about. Besides, location service will still depend on either having Wi-Fi triangulation, 3G or (for iPhones) true GPS.
If ever there were a platform that was tailor made to look at big, beautiful images, it is the iPad. This symbolizes a quick improvement on Google’s part, however, the search engine giant did not cut any corners, as Peter Birch, a product manager, was certain to specify.
“With our latest release, we now have native support for the iPad, which means that you get to see the world in beautiful full-resolution imagery,” Birch wrote this afternoon on the LatLong Blog. “There is a custom toolbar at the top, and you can click on individual icons to open ‘balloons’ without having to navigate away from the 3D view.”
Furthermore, “In addition to Panoramio photos, Wikipedia articles, and Google Places, you can also view roads rendered directly on the terrain. Select any of these layers from the ‘Layers’ menu in the toolbar.”
Thus, iPad owners who have a flair for a surefire way to draw more attention to their big, shiny screens should proceed straight to the iTunes store and download Google’s latest offering. The search engine titan’s Google Earth, which has been a popular sort of eye candy for years, now available for the iPad.
Google Earth for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is of course free, and requires iOS 2.0 or later and can be downloaded from the link given below.
Download Google Earth 3.0 [iTunes link]