If you're a map aficionado, such a bogus "bargain" is opting for the free Google Earth over National Geographic's 99-cent World Atlas HD iPad app, which offers downloadable high-definition maps of six continents (if you're on your way to Antarctica, you're out of luck). But there's such a thing as a false economy: times when you can get a lot more by paying just a little bit.
People love free stuff, so much so that they're willing to sacrifice quality for the chance to hold onto some of their hard-earned dough. National Geographic's high-quality maps come to the iPad I had fun revisiting one of my old haunts in search of kids playing Frisbee, but no dice. You start to think you can look in the front window of houses and businesses. Touch the wrench icon in the menu bar at the top of the window to view the longitude and latitude, show or hide terrain, and activate the autotilt feature that gives you a 360-degree view of the area.Īutotilt moves the horizon down as you move the iPad closer to perpendicular. To unclutter the satellite view, touch the Layers button in the top-left corner and uncheck such items as places, businesses, Wikipedia, borders and labels, and roads. Select an icon in Google Earth's satellite view to open a window with more information about the establishment, including star ratings and user reviews of restaurants. Tap an icon to open a window with information about the establishment, such as street address and phone number, Web address, star ratings, and reviews from, ,, and other sites. Street names and highway route numbers are overlain along with icons denoting the location of restaurants, shops, hotels, and various points of interest. The program's satellite views load relatively smoothly as you zoom into specific sites from the opening outer-space view of the planet. The Google Earth iPad app bears a striking resemblance to the desktop version, which is both the good news and the bad news.
Apple's homegrown maps app debuts (First Take).
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