MATLAB: Error using satellite Basemap in geoplot-function

Question

Hey community,

I simply want to display my latitude / longitude data on a satellite map:

geoplot(lat,lon)
geobasemap satellite

It works fine on my pc at home. However, at work I get the error message:

Error using geoplot (line 98)

Expected Basemap to match one of these values:

'darkwater', 'grayland', 'bluegreen', 'grayterrain', 'colorterrain', 'landcover', 'none'

The input, 'satellite', did not match any of the valid values.

I tried some other options to change the basemap but none is working:

set(groot,'defaultGeoaxesBasemap','satellite')
geoaxes('Basemap','satellite')

The siteviewer works fine with the satellite map anyway… Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you are using R2019a or older at work, MATLAB will not recognize the new basemap options like 'satellite'.

When the geobasemap/geoplot functions were first introduced (R2018b), only the options you listed were available --- then 'satellite', 'topographic', 'streets', 'streets-dark', and 'streets-light' basemaps were introduced in a more recent version (R2019b).