Tag: maptools

Your mapping toolkit tip #6 – Geocoding your addresses

You’ve got a database containing the addresses of all your customers … but how can you plot them on a map or analyze them spatially? First, you’ll need to convert the address into a numeric coordinate (latitude & longitude). SAS can do that … with Proc Geocode! But before we […]

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Your mapping toolkit tip #3 – removing internal borders

In recent versions of SAS/Graph, we have been shipping new/updated maps of each country, with 2 levels of detail (such as state & county, or province & division). But what if you only want a map showing the higher level of detail? In this blog post I share my third […]

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Your mapping toolkit Tip #2 – projecting your map

Have you ever seen a map that just didn’t look right to you? Perhaps the map area seemed squished or stretched? Perhaps this was because they used a different map projection than you were accustomed to. Or maybe the map coordinates weren’t projected at…