Advantage of a globe compared to an atlas: no distortion

With a big atlas, you can find many tiny details which is not possible with a
hardware globe and also not possible with Lucy's Globe. Whereas it is not possible
to magnify with a hardware globe, with a software globe it is of course possible to
put a huge amount of details onto the globe and show them by magnifying – as you
perhaps have already seen with Google Earth -. But with Lucy's Globe, the didactic
aspects are more important. The objective is not to put as many details as possible
to be able to see even the least house in the least village. But here the objective is to
gain a feeling for the big picture which can especially be conveyed by the puzzle
games.

The big advantage of a globe (either hardware globe or software globe) compared
to an atlas is that with a globe there is no distortion as with an atlas. With a globe,
you can easily compare different countries whereas the distortion is inherent with
an atlas. For this reason, the already huge Russia seems even much bigger than it
already is, especially on a map with all countries of the world.

Another advantage of a globe is that you can turn it easily from one position to
another one. With a software globe, this is even much easier, as the force necessary
to turn the globe corresponds only to the force necessary to manipulate the
computer mouse. Furthermore, the software globe can not fall down if ever you
make a clumsy movement.

Interactivity

With which big atlas can you measure immediately the distance Paris-Berlin or
Berlin-Moscow? With which big atlas can you get the exact basic data of a state as
surface, population or population density just with two mouse clicks?

Easy customization

Would anyone of us like to ruin his valuable atlas by writing on it? With
Lucy's Globe you can do this without remorse. You can even do complex changes,
as make making two states from one.