

Google earth I’d like to be able to see updated pictures of not only cities but also the outdoors even if I was charged for this app I wouldn’t mind.

And yes, even though I didn’t pay anything I still feel shortchanged. I now know that if I had a desktop I’d be able to look at the moon and mars so I feel really gypped now. Overall really great concept but what I’m gathering from other reviews, the app particularly for iPad is super low quality compared to others. It is absolutely impossible to tell one country/state from the next with the impossibly thin tan line separating everything that, oh yea, is the same color that is used for most of the landscape. Also, it would be really enjoyable (and easier on my old lady eyes) to be able to make borders bold or different colors or even cut out a region to view it individually. You can’t adjust any type of visual settings so if you zoom too far in on, say, China, you get a million different location names in English and Chinese and you can’t even see the land under all the text. I am terrible at geography and thought this would help me with a class I’m taking but I was mistaken. It’s like they took what they were in the process of developing years ago and just threw it up without even looking at it for a quick review. It takes a lot of disappointment for me to write reviews but this app is just so flat. Existing imagery will still be accessible through Google Maps.Not Even Basic App Comforts (2020 iPad Pro) One of the notices says "Photo Paths are going away", so it seems the company is shutting this feature down. These would then be strung together to cover locations that haven't been shot with Google's cameras. It allowed you to contribute your own imagery of places that Street View didn’t already cover with your own 2D photos. This is a relatively new feature that only launched last year. When turned on, these messages said that a shutdown was incoming, and Google later confirmed the changes.Īs confirmed in those notices, the one feature that will be lost altogether in the shutdown is Street View’s Photo Paths. The shutdown notice was first spotted in the latest version of the app called 2.71618, which included a variety of messages that weren't yet enabled. That's likely where you use Street View on mobile, and Google hasn't specified any updates to its desktop version. The Street View Studio web app will remain, so you can contribute your own imagery to the service through that, or if you just want to browse the feature you’ll find it within Google Maps.
