Bird’s-eye view of the Star Formation Handbook cloud catalog (colored blue points), looking down on the Galactic disk with the sun (orange circle) at the center. The catalog is overlaid on the 3D “Bayestar19” dust map from Green et al. (2019) integrated from z = ±300 pc off the plane. The points have been arbitrarily scaled according to their dust extinction (between A_V = 0 mag and A_V = 9 mag), so larger scatter points indicate more extinguished sightlines. The statistical errors (corresponding to the 16th/84th percentile of the cloud distances) are indicated via the line segments; an additional systematic uncertainty is expected, as reported in Table A.1. Right-hand panels: zoom-ins of the clouds towards l = 90° (top), clouds near the Sagittarius arm (middle), and clouds within the nearest 375 pc of the sun (bottom). In case this 3D figure does not render, an interactive 3D version is also accessible online and at https://faun.rc.fas.harvard.edu/czucker/Paper_Figures/handbook_distances.html.