With the launch of Google’s own Android mobile operating system, the company is bringing its Google Earth software to the iPhone App Store.

As reported by several sites, the iPhone version duplicates much of the desktop application’s core usability, downloading imagery from Google’s servers as the perspective shifts and dotting the map with landmarks, photos, and other information.

Google Earth for iPhone also includes a small Webkit-based browser to show site-specific information that users click on.

With Google Earth for iPhone, you can:

• Tilt your iPhone to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain
• View the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world
• View geo-located Wikipedia articles
• Use the ‘Location’ feature to fly to your current location
• Search for cities, places and business around the globe with Google Local Search

It’s available now in 18 languages and 22 countries in the iTunes App Store. To learn more, check out this video tour below.

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