Unable to visualize the earth using geoglobe command

I was using geoglobe and geoplot3 command to visualize the 3D path. But the earth map cannot be seen not matter using what terrain or map.

uif = uifigure;
g = geoglobe(uif,"Basemap","colorterrain");

the colorterrain has been installed.

uif = uifigure;
g = geoglobe(uif,"Terrain","southboulderpeak");

the Terrain 'southboulderpeak' already exists.

[Walter Roberson]

When I try in R2025a on my Intel MacOS system,

uif = uifigure;
g = geoglobe(uif,"Basemap","colorterrain");

does show the Earth map, mostly Africa.

Which MATLAB version are you using, and which operating system?

[彦彪 冯]

R2023b on the intel Win11 OS.

[Walter Roberson]

I tried on my Intel MacOS with R2023b, and response was decent and showed (mostly) Africa.

I tried R2023b in a virtual Windows 10 machine. Response was a bit slow, but it did eventually come up with the (mostly) Africa.

[Walter Roberson]

I tried R2023b in my (native) Windows 11 machine. Response time was decent and showed (mostly) Africa.

Answer 1

[Sameer]

Hi @彦彪 冯

This appears to be a known issue, and similar cases have been reported by other users. Following are the MATLAB Answers threads:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2047172-geoglobe-is-not-showing

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2047847-is-geoglobe-currently-bugged

As suggested in these discussions, try to set the Terrain property to "none" when creating the geoglobe object.

hfig = uifigure; 
g = geoglobe(hfig, Terrain="none") 

Hope this helps!