Winglobe description
3D interactive globe for your Windows desktop

WinGlobe is a tiny earth that sits on your desktop. In addition to just sitting there it knows the local time and population of several thousand major cities around the world. It also shows where it is day or night at the moment. And it shows the current weather. Simple tool that allows you to see information about time, population, city names, country names, weather status.

Here are some key features of "Winglobe":


You can left-click and drag the globe to spin it. If the globe is maximized you need just click to recenter it, it is too large then to drag-and-spin.

Right click anywhere to get the menu. Choose "Location..." to get information for the location that you clicked. You can also search for a place there based on the latitude/longitude, or a country's or city's name. Just enter part of the name and leave the field. Or click the button next to the city or country field to pick a place from a list. The list will change to match what you enter. If you click a name in the list the location dialog will switch to that place.

It also shows the distance between the current and the previous location, as the crow flies.

Push "Go there!" or [Return] to spin the globe to the current location. Click the button with the plane to get extended information about the city from the Iternet.

Click "Zoom in" to get a closer look.

Click "Options" in the menu to choose the features to be displayed. You can display a lat/lon grid, country names, city names, city markers, country boundaries and weather.

While "day and night" is checked, the globe is iluminated according to the true sun position. Uncheck it to get a sun that is always over your left shoulder.

"Magic Mouse" hilights the country, and city that is nearest to the mouse cursor.There are various other options that allow you to tweak WinGlobes appearance and behaviour.

You can drag the information that is shown in the Location dialog to other applications that support OLE, like Word, Excel or Wordpad (a simple editor for formated text that is included in Windows)

Just click on a free spot in the dialog and start dragging. The cursor will change when you are on a window where you can drop the text.