Extremely cool

The Washington Post has the story by Robin Wauters:

Google has released a custom Google Earth application for the iPhone/iPod Touch, and it's stunning. The Google Earth geographical software has been altered to make maximum use of the iPhone's screen and functionality. You're able to tilt the device to adjust your view when browsing mountainous terrain, use the 'My Location' feature to jump right to where you are in the blink of an eye, and use Google's local search engine to look for information on cities, places and businesses. Google has also added additional layers to the application, namely Panoramio and Wikipedia, for geo-located high-quality photos and informative articles respectively.
This marks the main differentiator between the official Google Earth app and the one Earthscape released last May. More recently, the Earthscape application dropped its price from $10 to free, but will most likely be trumped by the official app now.
The app is free and available today in all languages the iPhone currently supports (18) and will gradually be released for 22 countries in total.

Rico says he already loaded it on his iPhone and it is way fucking cool...