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GeographicGlobe

Control geographic globe appearance and behavior

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Description

Use a geographic globe to plot 3-D lines and markers over basemaps and terrain.

Creation

Create a geographic globe object using the geoglobe function.

Properties

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Maps

Map on which to plot data, specified as one of the values listed in the table. Six of the basemaps in the table are tiled data sets created using Natural Earth. Five of the basemaps are high-zoom-level maps hosted by Esri®.

'satellite' basemap.

'satellite' (default)

Full global basemap composed of high-resolution satellite imagery.

Hosted by Esri.

'streets' basemap.

'streets'

General-purpose road map that emphasizes accurate, legible styling of roads and transit networks.

Hosted by Esri.

'streets-light' basemap.

'streets-light'

Map designed to provide geographic context while highlighting user data on a light background.

Hosted by Esri.

'streets-dark' basemap.

'streets-dark'

Map designed to provide geographic context while highlighting user data on a dark background.

Hosted by Esri.

'topographic' basemap.

'topographic'

General-purpose map with styling to depict topographic features.

Hosted by Esri.

'landcover' basemap.

'landcover'

Map that combines satellite-derived land cover data, shaded relief, and ocean-bottom relief. The light, natural palette is suitable for thematic and reference maps.

Created using Natural Earth.

'colorterrain' basemap.

'colorterrain'

Shaded relief map blended with a land cover palette. Humid lowlands are green and arid lowlands are brown.

Created using Natural Earth.

'grayterrain' basemap.

'grayterrain'

Terrain map in shades of gray. Shaded relief emphasizes both high mountains and micro-terrain found in lowlands.

Created using Natural Earth.

'bluegreen' basemap.

'bluegreen'

Two-tone, land-ocean map with light green land areas and light blue water areas.

Created using Natural Earth.

'grayland' basemap.

'grayland'

Two-tone, land-ocean map with gray land areas and white water areas.

Created using Natural Earth.

'darkwater' basemap.

'darkwater'

Two-tone, land-ocean map with light gray land areas and dark gray water areas. This basemap is installed with MATLAB®.

Created using Natural Earth.

Not applicable.

Custom basemap added using the addCustomBasemap function.

All basemaps except 'darkwater' require Internet access. The 'darkwater' basemap is included with MATLAB and Mapping Toolbox™.

If you do not have consistent access to the Internet, you can download the basemaps created using Natural Earth onto your local system by using the Add-On Explorer. The basemaps hosted by Esri are not available for download. For more about downloading basemaps and changing the default basemap on your local system, see Access Basemaps and Terrain for Geographic Globe.

The basemaps hosted by Esri update periodically. As a result, you might see differences in your visualizations over time.

Alignment of boundaries and region labels are a presentation of the feature provided by the data vendors and do not imply endorsement by MathWorks®.

Example: g = geoglobe(uifigure,'Basemap','bluegreen')

Example: g.Basemap = 'bluegreen'

Data Types: char | string

Terrain data, specified as one of these values:

  • 'gmted2010' – Global terrain derived from the GMTED2010 model created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

  • 'none' - No terrain.

  • string scalar or character vector – Name of custom terrain added using the addCustomTerrain function.

Multiple Plots

Color order for lines plotted on the globe, specified as a three-column matrix of RGB triplets. This property defines the palette of colors MATLAB uses to create plot objects such as lines. Each row of the array is an RGB triplet. An RGB triplet is a three-element vector whose elements specify the intensities of the red, green, and blue components of a color. The intensities must be in the range [0, 1]. This table lists the default colors.

ColorsColorOrder Matrix

 

    [    0    0.4470    0.7410
    0.8500    0.3250    0.0980
    0.9290    0.6940    0.1250
    0.4940    0.1840    0.5560
    0.4660    0.6740    0.1880
    0.3010    0.7450    0.9330
    0.6350    0.0780    0.1840]

MATLAB assigns colors to objects according to their order of creation. For example, when plotting lines, the first line uses the first color, the second line uses the second color, and so on. If there are more lines than colors, then the cycle repeats.

Change the color order in either of the following ways:

  • Call the colororder function to change the color order for all globe objects in a UI figure. The colors of existing plots in the UI figure update immediately. If you place additional globe objects into the figure, those globe objects also use the new color order. If you continue to call plotting commands, those commands also use the new colors.

  • Set the ColorOrder property on the globe, call the hold function to set the globe hold state to 'on', and then call the desired plotting functions. This is like calling the colororder function, but in this case you are setting the color order for the specific globe, not the entire UI figure. Setting the hold state to 'on' is necessary to ensure that subsequent plotting commands do not reset the globe to use the default color order.

This property is read-only.

SeriesIndex value for the next plot object added to the globe, returned as a whole number greater than or equal to 0. This property is useful when you want to track how the objects cycle through the colors in the color order. This property maintains a count of the objects in the globe that have a SeriesIndex property. MATLAB uses it to assign the value of the SeriesIndex property for each new object. The count starts at 1 when you create the globe, and it increases by 1 for each additional object. Thus, the count is typically n+1, where n is the number of objects in the globe.

Properties to reset when adding a new plot to the globe, specified as one of these values:

  • 'replace' and 'replaceall' — Delete existing plots and reset globe properties, except Position and Units, to their default values before displaying the new plot.

  • 'add' — Add new plots to the existing globe. Do not delete existing plots or reset globe properties before displaying the new plot.

  • 'replacechildren' — Delete existing plots before displaying the new plot. Reset the ColorOrderIndex property to 1, but do not reset other globe properties. The next plot added to the globe uses the first color based on the ColorOrder property.

Position

Size and location, specified as a four-element vector of the form [left bottom width height]. By default, MATLAB measures the values in units normalized to the container. To change the units, set the Units property.

  • The left and bottom elements define the distance from the lower left corner of the container UI figure, panel, or tab to the lower left corner of the position boundary.

  • The width and height elements are the position boundary dimensions.

Position units, specified as one of these values.

UnitsDescription
'normalized' (default)Units normalized with respect to the container, which is typically the figure or a panel. The lower left corner of the container is (0,0) and the upper right corner is (1,1).
'inches'Inches.
'centimeters'Centimeters.
'characters'

Units based on the default uicontrol font of the graphics root object:

  • The character width is the width of the letter x.

  • The character height is the distance between the baselines of two lines of text.

'points'Typography points. One point equals 1/72 inch.
'pixels'

Pixels.

Distances in pixels are independent of your system resolution on Windows® and Macintosh systems.

  • On Windows systems, a pixel is 1/96th of an inch.

  • On Macintosh systems, a pixel is 1/72nd of an inch.

  • On Linux® systems, the size of a pixel is determined by your system resolution.

When specifying the units as a name-value pair during object creation, specify the Units name-value pair before specifying name-value pairs that use those units, for example Position.

Interactivity

State of visibility, specified as one of these values:

  • 'on' — Display the object.

  • 'off' — Hide the object without deleting it. You still can access the properties of an invisible object.

Parent/Child

Parent container, specified as a Figure object created using the uifigure function, a Panel object within a UI figure, or a Tab object within a UI figure.

Children, returned as an array of graphics objects. Use this property to view a list of the children or to reorder the children by setting the property to a permutation of itself.

You cannot add or remove children using the Children property. To add a child to this list, set the Parent property of the child graphics object to the GeographicGlobe object.

Visibility of the object handle in the Children property of the parent, specified as one of these values:

  • 'on' — Object handle is always visible.

  • 'off' — Object handle is invisible at all times. This option is useful for preventing unintended changes by another function. Set the HandleVisibility to 'off' to temporarily hide the handle during the execution of that function.

  • 'callback' — Object handle is visible from within callbacks or functions invoked by callbacks, but not from within functions invoked from the command line. This option blocks access to the object at the command line, but permits callback functions to access it.

If the object is not listed in the Children property of the parent, then functions that obtain object handles by searching the object hierarchy or querying handle properties cannot return it. Examples of such functions include the get, findobj, and close functions.

Hidden object handles are still valid. Set the root ShowHiddenHandles property to 'on' to list all object handles regardless of their HandleVisibility property setting.

Identifiers

This property is read-only.

Type of graphics object returned as 'globe'.

Object identifier, specified as a character vector or string scalar. You can specify a unique Tag value to serve as an identifier for an object. When you need access to the object elsewhere in your code, you can use the findobj function to search for the object based on the Tag value.

User data, specified as any MATLAB array. For example, you can specify a scalar, vector, matrix, cell array, character array, table, or structure. Use this property to store arbitrary data on an object.

If you are working in App Designer, create public or private properties in the app to share data instead of using the UserData property. For more information, see Share Data Within App Designer Apps.

Object Functions

Change Hold State and Basemap

hold

These hold syntaxes are supported for geographic globe objects:

  • hold(g,'on') retains plots, terrain, and basemaps in the globe specified by g so that new plots added to the globe g do not delete existing plots or reset the terrain and basemaps. New plots use the next color based on the ColorOrder property of the globe. MATLAB adjusts the camera line of sight to display the full range of data.

  • hold(g,'off') sets the hold state to off so that new plots added to the globe clear existing plots and reset all globe properties, including terrain and basemaps. The next plot added to the globe uses the first color based on the ColorOrder property of the globe. This option is the default behavior.

  • hold(g) toggles the hold state between on and off.

geobasemap

This geobasemap syntax is supported for geographic globe objects:

  • geobasemap(g,basemap) sets the basemap for the globe specified by g. For example, geobasemap(g,'topographic') sets the basemap to a general-purpose map with styling to depict topographic features. For a list of basemaps, see the Basemap property.

Change View

camposSet or query position of camera for geographic globe
camheightSet or query height of camera for geographic globe
camheadingSet or query heading angle of camera for geographic globe
campitchSet or query pitch angle of camera for geographic globe
camrollSet or query roll angle of camera for geographic globe

Examples

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Display a geographic globe in a figure created using the uifigure function.

uif = uifigure;
g = geoglobe(uif);

A geographic globe in a figure.

See Also

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Introduced in R2020a

Mapping Toolbox Documentation

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