Google brings 3D imagery to iOS

CNET states.

Google is updating its Google Earth app on Apple's platform to include the same 3D imagery it showed off in early June. That same feature rolled out to users on Google's Android in late June.

PC Magazine notes that Google plans to continue building 3D imagery in hopes of covering metropolitan areas with a combined population of at least 300 million people by the end of the year.

“A map must be comprehensive and accurate no matter where you are or what device you use,” Google Earth product manager, Peter Birch, says.

Google also released a “tour guide” feature, which comes along with its Android 3D Earth app.

While Google may have beaten Apple to the punch, Apple Insider writer Mikey Campbell reports that he believes the beta version of the iOS 6 Maps app offers more detailed images than version 7.0.0 of Google Earth, Red Orbit reports.

He says Google's software “offers markedly less detail and overall resolution” than its Apple-developed counterpart, and also showed “major signs of post-rendering while Apple's version is crisp and detailed.”