globeborders documentation
The globeborders function plots georeferenced political boundaries on a globe.
Data are compiled from 2013 US Census Bureau 500k data and a thematicmapping.org TM World Borders 0.3 dataset.
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Syntax
globeborders globeborders(LineSpec) globeborders(Property,Value,...) globeborders(...,'radius',GlobeRadius) h = globeborders(...)
Description
globeborders plots national borders defined in the file borderdata.mat on a globe with radius defined as 6371, where 6371 corresponds to the average radius of the Earth in kilometers.
globeborders(LineSpec) specifies the line style, marker symbol, and/or color of the borders.
globeborders(Property,Value,...) specifies the line properties to control border appearance and behavior.
globeborders(...,'radius',GlobeRadius) specifies the radius of the globe as GlobeRadius.
h = globeborders(...) returns the handle h of the plotted objects.
Example 1
Plot national borders on a globe:
figure
globeborders
axis tight
Fill in the empty globe with globefill:
hold on globefill axis tight
Example 2
Plot national borders on a white globe as dashed, red lines:
figure globefill hold on globeborders('--r') axis tight
Example 3
Plot national borders as thick, deep blue dots on a globe of radius 5 million:
figure globeborders('color',[0.25 0.25 0.65],'linewidth',2,'linestyle',':','radius',5e6); axis tight
Example 4
Plot political boundaries over a Blue Marble globe plot:
figure
globeimage
globeborders
view(45,20)
axis tight
Example 5
Plot national borders as thin, black lines over a globe depicting topography:
load topo [lon,lat] = meshgrid(0:359,-89:90); figure globepcolor(lat,lon,topo); hold on globeborders('color','k','linewidth',0.5,'linestyle','-')
Author Info
This function and supporting documentation were written by Natalie S. Wolfenbarger for the Climate Data Toolbox for Matlab, 2019.