plot_openstreetmap

MATLAB function for plotting maps from OpenStreetMap and OpenSeaMap on the background of a figure.

Example

Plotting several points on a map in Gothenburg archipelago and adding base map from OpenStreetMap (water and land) and overlaying with sea markings from OpenSeaMap.

x = [11.6639 11.7078 11.7754 11.8063 11.8797];
y = [57.6078 57.6473 57.6607 57.6804 57.6886];
figure; plot(x, y, 'o-', 'LineWidth', 2);
hBase = plot_openstreetmap('Alpha', 0.4, 'Scale', 2);  % Basemap.
hSea  = plot_openstreetmap('Alpha', 0.5, 'Scale', 2, 'BaseUrl', "http://tiles.openseamap.org/seamark");  % Sea marks.
title('Map data from OpenStreetMap and OpenSeaMap');

Export image using export_fig, to get anti-aliasing:

gcf.Color = 'none'; gca.Color = 'none';
export_fig('example-map.png', '-m2', '-a4', '-transparent')

Acknowledgements

This software was inspired by, and uses code from, the following open-source projects:

• plot_google_map by Zohar Bar-Yehuda
• Matlab-Map by Bastian Bechtold
• MAKESCALE by Jonathan Sullivan