Place your story’s locations on a sphere and check distances, climates and what lies on the other side. Useful when the story travels.
Open the globeThis one is the Earth. For a world of your own there’s the custom planet.
Less so. The globe pays off when the story travels and distances, climates and timings have to add up.
Yes, that’s its main use. Measuring the real distance shows right away whether the days your character takes match the means of transport you gave them.