Globe Path

Visualize movement across the world with animated arcs on a 3D globe, right inside Tableau.

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About

About Globe Path

Visualize movement across the world like never before with the Globe Path Viz Extension. This extension enables you to plot animated arcs between origin and destination points on a spinning 3D globe, bringing geography and connectivity to life within your Tableau dashboards.

Whether you’re tracking flights, shipments, migrations, or network flows, this globe-based visualization delivers a stunning and intuitive way to explore global interactions.

Traditional maps flatten the world; Globe Path brings it back to its natural shape. By using arcs over a 3D globe, you can accurately represent long-distance paths and instantly communicate the global scale of your data. It’s eye-catching, informative, and immersive.

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See Globe Path in action

Key features

Everything you need

3D Animated Globe
Origin-to-Destination Clarity
Customizable circle size and movement direction
Seamless Tableau Integration

Best used for

When Globe Path shines

Visualizing flight paths or any origin-to-destination movement on a globe
Highlighting trends and variations across geographic paths

Setup

Setup in Tableau

Two short phases: add the Viz Extension to your workbook once, then drop the relevant fields on the new Marks Card.

Phase 1

Add the extension to Tableau

Open the Marks card and choose Add Extension On any Tableau worksheet (Desktop, Cloud or Server), open the Marks card dropdown and select "Add Extension". A new dialog will list available Viz Extensions.
Pick the Exchange listing or upload the .trex file Either choose "Access Extensions on the Exchange" for the free hosted build, or click "Access local extensions" and upload the .trex file you received with your LaDataViz license.
Review and accept the data-access prompt Tableau will ask you to allow the extension to read the worksheet's aggregated data. Accept it — a new Viz Extension Marks Card will appear next to Color, Size, Tooltip, etc.

Tableau's official Viz Extensions guide

Phase 2

Configure Globe Path

Drag both Latitude and Longitude on Source and Target.
Click Format Extension to configure circles, movement direction, and styling.

Security & Privacy

Enterprise-grade by design

Every LaDataViz Viz Extension is built so your data never leaves Tableau. Here's exactly how we keep it that way.

No data is ever stored As a recognized Tableau Partner, your data is never stored anywhere — not even temporarily. Everything runs in your browser.

Only aggregated data The extension cannot access your data source’s raw fields. It only reads the aggregated marks the Worksheet already displays.

Cloud or on-premise Use the hosted cloud version, or deploy a packaged build inside your own environment with no internet connection required.

Trusted by Tableau Listed on the official Tableau Exchange, with free tiers hosted by Tableau themselves and reviewed against their security guidelines.

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