Map of the Earth on Matlab topo.mat

It is nice and handy to know that the map of the earth  is available on Matlab.

load topo
contour(topo,[0,0],'k')

Topo contour plot in matlab.

The Blue marble!

The cool 3D map is obtained after running the code from:

http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/demos.html?file=/products/demos/shipping/matlab/earthmap.html

with cdata on to sphere.