To get the data onto the map you can use uistack. uistack is used to reorder visual stacking of UI components. Using this function, you can shift the specified component (map) to another position(bottom) in the stack.
Refer to the following example for the same:
x = 1:500;
y = sind(x);
plot(x,y,'linewidth',3)
axis tight;
hold on
I = imread('640px-WorldMap.png');
h = image(xlim,-ylim,I);
uistack(h,'bottom')
Output:
You can refer to uistack documentation for more details:
