Ed has worked at SAS since 1994, and has been an integral part of the mapping group ever since. Prior to his career as a developer at SAS he was a civil engineer and land surveyor. He first used SAS in 1979 as an engineering student at N.C. State University.
An earlier SGMAP blog used the BUBBLE statement to overlay point data on top of an Open Street Map. However, not all map features are points. Some are enclosed areas called polygons. Some map polygons share common borders such as states and counties. Others are separate, non-contiguous regions such as national parks
Data with a geographic component begs to be mapped. That capability is now available to all SAS users. A new mapping procedure in the fifth maintenance release of 9.4 (SAS 9.4M5) allows any user to easily plot data on a map. Unlike previous mapping applications with SAS, the SGMAP procedure
