Why is Google earth on the iPhone better than Maps on the iPhone?

Answer 1

Really Google earth is not better than maps google earth on iphone/itouch is slugish and does not run very fast unless you have a good service in the area i recomend sticking to maps on your iphone it's better for portable phones.

Answer 2

Google Earth and Google Maps are two mapping applications each with their own strengths. Google Maps is a web application that runs in a web browser, and Google Earth is a desktop or mobile application. Sometimes Google Maps is better for a given situation (e.g. finding directions) and other times Google Earth is better if you want a more emersive virtual tour of a mountainous terrain. Google Earth can directly plugin to a GPS device showing the location in 3-D view.

Over the years Google has blurred the line between Google Maps and Google Earth making it easy to switch from one to another. Primarily Google Earth gives you a 3-D view while Google Maps gives a user a 2-D view, but you can switch to a Google Earth plugin view from Google Maps for the 3-D view. Likewise, you can switch to Google Maps from a given view in Google Earth.