Interactive Globes

3D World Maps for WordPress

Doc tag: regions

  • Create a 3D Visited Countries Map

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    With Interactive Globes you can display the world map highlighting the countries you visited. Each country can link to a page or display content. Displaying it in a 3D globe on your WordPress powered website will for sure impress you visitors. Once you have the plugin installed you can create new Globe and enable the…

  • Using Custom Geojson Files

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    You can use custom geojson files as the source of your regions shapes. The file needs to be hosted online. Once you have the file you need, you can select the Regions type as ‘custom’ and then add the URL to your file. Resave your globe and you should see the regions from your custom…

  • Adding the world landmass as a unique shape

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    If you want the world landmass, like the continents/countries, to be a unique vector shape, in the ‘Regions’ tab you can select the ‘outline’ map. You can then set the inactive regions to the color you want or if you need the landmass to be interactive you can add a unique entry to the regions…

  • Setting a different initial center and zoom

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    You can set a custom initial center for your globe. In the example below the center is set to show Portugal/Spain by default when the globe loads. This is controlled in the Globe settings, in the Initial Altitude/Scale and Center Coordinates options. The initial altitude/scale option works as the ‘camera that views the globe’ altitude.…

  • Creating an hollow transparent globe

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    To create a transparent globe you can select the proper option in the ‘Globe’ options. Once you’ve selected that option and saved the globe you’ll see a fully transparent globe. Now you need to add a regions layer, so that the globe is not empty. Go to the Regions Layer tab, enable it and select…

  • Adding regions to the globe

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    To add a layer of vector regions to the globe you’ll first need to select what type of regions you want to display, in the ‘Regions’ tab of the globe. By default the Regions layer is disabled. The plugin comes with some prebuilt region maps that can be used in the globe: After selecting the…

  • How can I set a marker or region to open a URL?

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    For each marker (point or dot label) or region you can add the URL in the ‘Action Content’ field. Then in the ‘Default Values’ section, make sure you select ‘Open URL’ in the ‘Click Action’ option.