The Handbook
is a geographical atlas and a virtual globe which lets you quickly explore places on our home planet. You can use to look up addresses, to easily create maps, measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the Internet. The user interface is clean, simple and easy to use.

Introduction
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Welcome to , a small interactive globe and geographical atlas that puts the world at your fingertips. Just like a real atlas or a conventional globe allows you to freely move across its map and lookup places. Furthermore allows you to zoom in and have many different views on the surface of the Earth. In its default configuration offers 11 different views: Atlas, OpenStreetMap, Satellite View, Earth at Night, Historical Map 1689, Moon, Plain Map, Precipitation (December), Precipitation (July), Temperature (December) and Temperature (July).
comes with a small database of more than 12,000 locations (cities, mountains, volcanoes) which can be searched for and which are integrated with Wikipedia. Additionally you can measure distances using between multiple measure points which can be set freely.
is free software and licensed under the Lesser General Public License.