How to create a spherical graph with points that are latitude and longitude?
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I have a list of locations given in lat and long. How can I graph them in a sphere so that it looks like a globe?
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Santa Raghavan
2017년 7월 26일
MathWorks provides a Mapping Toolbox to analyze and visualize geographic information.
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Chad Greene
2017년 8월 2일
If you don't have the Mapping Toolbox, you can always use the standard Matlab function sph2cart to represent the Earth as a sphere of radius 6371 km like this:
lat = 180*rand(500,1)-90;
lon = 360*rand(500,1);
T = 15+10*cosd(lat);
[x,y,z] = sph2cart(deg2rad(lon),deg2rad(lat),6371);
scatter3(x,y,z,40,T,'filled');
axis tight equal
cmocean thermal
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/177654/image.png)
Above I used the cmocean thermal colormap, but you can skip that line if you prefer. To put those data points in context, I'll use border data from my borders function, convert the borders to cartesian coordinates the same way as above, and plot with the scattered points:
hold on
C = load('borderdata.mat');
for k = 1:246
[xtmp,ytmp,ztmp] = sph2cart(deg2rad(C.lon{k}),deg2rad(C.lat{k}),6371);
plot3(xtmp,ytmp,ztmp,'k')
end
axis off
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/177655/image.png)
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Chad Greene
2017년 8월 2일
I answered a similar question here, where I also made the globe opaque and included lines of latitude and longitude.
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