Interactive Globes

3D World Maps for WordPress

Topic: 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…

  • Choropleth maps and color coded and sized markers

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    When using the External Data Sources Addon you can use your data to create choropleth maps (sometimes refered to as heatmaps or heat maps) or have your markers size and colour depend on values from you data. In the plugin, for markers ( points and dot labels ) this option is called ‘Auto calculate’ and…

  • Action Content Template

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    In the Pro version, when using the External Data Sources addon, you can control the Action Content using templates. You can use placeholders in the template that will be replaced with the content of that property. This is particularly useful if you’re using external data sources with several properties with data, since you’ll have more…

  • Tooltip Template

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    In the Pro version you can control the content of the tooltip using templates. In the Tooltip section you can set a global template and on each data type (Regions and Markers) it’s possible to override that template. You can use placeholders in the template that will be replaced with the content of that property.…

  • Populating Globe with JSON data – Addon

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    Using the Extended Sources Addon together with the Pro version, you can populate the globe with JSON data. The data can be static, including it in the globe edit screen or use a URL to an external JSON file. Example of JSON data: Top populated cities in the world 2024 Once you have the addon…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Add Different Layers of Data to Globe

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    You can include data from different globes into a parent globe using the ‘Data Layers’ feature. This will also allow you to enable a filter if needed, to navigate between the different sets of data. To do this you simply need to go into the ‘Data Layers and Filters’ tab of you globe and select…

  • Display a autocomplete dropdown with search feature

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    To display a search dropdown, you need to enable it in the ‘External Controls’ tab of your globe. Editing the labels will also allow you to translate and localize it to your needs. Selecting an entry in the dropdown will rotate the globe to bring the selected entry into view and trigger their click action.…