Google launched a major update to Google Earth this week for the desktop, iOS and Android. The update includes the addition over over 100,000 new tours and a million new photos in Tour Guide. <\/p>\n
“As you navigate in Earth, tour guide acts as a local exploration expert suggesting interesting places near the location you’re visiting,” Google said in a Google+ update<\/a> on Tuesday (via TheNextWeb<\/a>). “Today’s update adds over 100,000 new tours of popular sites, cities and places across 200 countries, as well as enhancements to existing tours.”<\/p>\n “The new, richer tours combine 3D flyovers, Wikipedia snippets and \u2013 for the first time \u2013 place highlight and more than 1 million user-generated Panoramio photos in order to create an immersive and educational exploration of your favorite places,” Google added. “Each tour ends with a selection of photo thumbnails which were selected from Panoramio as the best representation of a given place. Clicking on one of the thumbnails enables a full screen photo experience.”<\/p>\n The Tour Guide feature is available on Google Earth 7.0. Google introduced this version back in October bringing the tour guide feature to the desktop. <\/p>\n