# Web World Wind #
Web World Wind is a 3D virtual globe API for JavaScript. You can use it to provide a geographic context, complete
with terrain, for visualizing geographic or geo-located information. Web World Wind provides high-resolution terrain
and imagery, retrieved from remote servers automatically as needed. You can also provide your own terrain and
imagery. Web World Wind additionally provides a rich collection of shapes that you can use to represent information on
the globe or in space.
See [webworldwind.org](http://webworldwind.org) for a complete description of Web World Wind's functionality.
You'll also find there links to many Web World Wind resources, including a user guide. The Web World Wind distribution
provides many simple examples showing how to use all of Web World Wind's functionality.
The web site you're currently viewing contains the detailed Web World Wind API documentation. These pages describe
each class, function and property in the Web World Wind library.
Here is a very simple example of using Web World Wind. It is the contents of SimplestExample.html in the
example collection. It displays an interactive virtual globe in an HTML canvas.
World Wind Example