New Google Earth iPhone App – Earthscape – It’s Free
If you have a 3G phone and are looking for a cool, new mapping iPhone app, TechCrunch just turned us on to Earthscape which is free for a limited time through the iTunes store.
You can download it here.
Not only does it have GPS functionality and integration with Google Earth (which includes a 3-year-old sky view of New York City), but it also integrates with relevant entries made by “editors” over at Wikipedia and shows you photos on Flickr taken at any given location.
For example, if a photos has been taken near the Fillmore East’s old location on New York City’s Second Avenue and have been geo-tagged, you would see a marker in Earthscape that you could click for that photo.
It’s a graphical touring book for the iPhone, if you will. Fodor’s eat your heart out. And, to reiterate, this uses Google Earth (kinda) not Google Maps – a much cooler effect.
Here’s a video made by the editor of the Google Earth blog who notes this isn’t true, high res, “Google Earth”:
