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^®.

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.

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:

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.

    [    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:

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:

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.

Position units, specified as one of these values.

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.

State of visibility, specified as one of these values:

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:

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.

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.