Earth on the mobile phone
Remember the video of the 3D Google-Earth like application for Java-enabled mobile phone posted a few days ago? Swedish mobile gadget news site mobil confirms it's of Swedish company Wayfinder's mobile app Wayfinder Earth, whose beta is due to be released May 2.
The news site reports that the application will allow you to type in a place name and then zoom in to it, and will also show restaurants, hotels, etc. It also says the free application is part of a strategy by Wayfinder to attract more users, who would then be enticed into buying services directly through the app.
All this puts Wayfinder into something of a competitive position with Google's recently announced Google Maps Mobile. Google's product is definitely 2D, as the working online demo shows. Also, it uses the same technique as with Maps, where you zoom in to predefined levels, and then scroll across different map tiles.
Wayfinder Earth is seen using a two-tiered vector-based solution: A Google Earth-like 3D interface for further out, and a 2D interface when zoomed closer in. The video shows smooth zooming at all levels, with the maps as vector data downloaded and rendered on the phone.
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Of course what I'm really interested in, is whether this is actually integrated into the phone's services? Is it just another map on your phone, or does it do geo-located data?
Posted by: Alasdair Allan at 17:53 UTC, April 30, 2006
Keep me updated
Posted by: Goltz Wessmann at 14:12 UTC, April 29, 2007
I want google earth because i want to see the whole world.Thanks
Posted by: Aryan at 18:50 UTC, October 19, 2007
I want google earth because I want to see whole world.
Posted by: Prthamesh Naik at 10:14 UTC, June 05, 2008
I would like to know that does it really works on mobile? if it really
Posted by: Nishant bhannaria at 21:59 UTC, June 28, 2008
Uddin
Posted by: Masi at 16:15 UTC, July 27, 2008
HTML
Posted by: TUSHAR VIRDA at 6:50 UTC, July 29, 2008
I WANT GOOGLE EARTH BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE WORLD.
Posted by: TUSHAR VIRDA at 17:29 UTC, July 29, 2008
i want google earth because i want to see whole world.
Posted by: Ajay patel at 1:54 UTC, August 05, 2008
nice
Posted by: justin at 8:48 UTC, August 07, 2008
I like earth because I want to see my karimnagar in google earth
Posted by: Rohith koyyada at 15:17 UTC, September 14, 2008
Please send me google earth for my cell phone nokia 6233.
Because i want to show whole world at my mobile.
Posted by: Rudrasinh vaghela at 9:11 UTC, October 11, 2008
Please send me google earth for my cell phone nokia 6233.
Because i want to show whole world at my mobile.
Posted by: Rudrasinh vaghela at 9:11 UTC, October 11, 2008
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