Geographical Mapping Using PROC GMAP
(This SAS geographical mapping functionality is, unfortunately,
not currently available in SAS University Edition and therefore SAS
Studio provided via this package. It is available via all packages
that include SAS/GRAPH, such as SAS 9.4 or SAS® Analytics Pro.)
SAS is wonderfully adept
at doing geography-based mapping of data. Take, for instance the 2005
population map of Africa in Figure 10.9 Example of GIS mapping using PROC GMAP below,
which can easily be generated in SAS.
Figure 10.9 Example of GIS mapping using PROC GMAP
The code for this example
is from the GMAP helpfiles in SAS/GRAPH 9.4 User’s ...
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