Yesterday Google released the long-awaited\u00a0 Google Earth for iPhone (iTunes link<\/a>) and I downloaded it immediately after reading about it in TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s truly stunning and really fast (at least via wifi). After installing it, I fired it up (which takes a minute or so, but isn’t so bad) and clicked the locate button in the lower left-hand corner. Seeing the Earth from space, courtesy of NASA satellite imagery, then watching it zoom down on the map right to my house was pretty incredible. I mean, sure, we’ve all seen a similar thing on the desktop version of Google Earth or on Google Maps, but to watch this on my iPhone was pretty sweet.<\/p>\n I started dragging around the map, zooming in and out, and the redraw rate was pretty quick. I took a cross-country trip to the Golden Gate Bridge and marveled at the level of detail — it was like I was flying right above the towers of the bridge and looking down at the cars. I then zoomed over to our old home on Treasure Island and looked down on it with incredible detail.<\/p>\n All this imagery and it’s integrated with Google Local search, so it’s fun, educational, and practical.<\/p>\n This is one must-have app in any iPhone’s arsenal. And even if you don’t have an iPhone, this app alone is one more reason to get one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t really written much about the iPhone or any apps since I finally got one (iPhone 3G) on July 22 — 11 days after it was released. Since then, I’ve downloaded lots of free apps and have even bought a few (Scrabble, TriCalc, Election ’08). Some are must-have apps (Facebook, Pandora) and some are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Google](\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/snag-1743.png\")
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