Google Earth-like App for iPhone Being Developed
A startup company called Earthscape is developing a Google Earth style application for the iPhone – that lets you tilt the phone to navigate around to different parts of the globe.
This early demo of the app – which is being developed using the iPhoen SDK and is currently in private beta on Windows only – was originally posted on the Google Earth Blog.
Here’s a little more detail on the Earthscape Mobile program:
The demo is of a mobile application (Earthscape Mobile) in development that puts virtual earth software on the iPhone. When the iPhone is tilted, the earth begins to rotate and you can navigate to another part of the globe. Taylor notes that the app was running locally on the phone, and that ideally you’d would want real geo-spatial information downloaded over WiFi or 3G, which would take a ton of bandwidth and effect performance.
Pretty cool stuff. You can sign up for the beta HERE – and check out the demo video HERE …
Via: TechCrunch
