(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.

The code for this example is from the GMAP helpfiles in SAS/GRAPH 9.4 User’s Guide, and is repeated in “Code10d GMAP Graph example” in the “Textbook Materials” folder.