topic Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates in SAS Programming

Google Maps CoOrdinates

KevEile — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:14:36 GMT

I'm using SAS Enterprise Guide v5.1 and currently have a table that looks like the following

Address

123 Street Name, Town, Ireland

456 Big Road, Other Town, Ireland

etc.

Can anyone please tell me how to connect to Google Maps API (preferably the free version that allows up to 2000 searches) and determine the geographical co-ordinates of the addresses in the table? I wish then to create a new table that looks like:

Address Latitude Longitude

123 Street Name, Town, Ireland 1.23456 6.54321

456 Big Road, Other Town, Ireland 5.67890 0.98765

etc.

Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates

Reeza — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:24:42 GMT

Have you considered PROC GEOCODE, especially if you have SAS 9.4

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/graphref/67881/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p087i29802bnfgn1qn9isdqzde0h-508.htm

You may need to download a dataset for it to work for Ireland.

Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates

KevEile — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:28:26 GMT

Hi Reeza,

Yes, I considered using PROC GEOCODE but it seems to be catered specifically for USA/Canada/UK (anywhere with a definied postal code system such as zip codes) and not for Ireland

That's why I'm wondering specifically about the Google Maps API

Also, I have SAS 9.3

Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates

Reeza — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:37:56 GMT

Here are two examples. One issue is that they wrote them a while back and the API changes over time.

I think the second one has been maintained over time. I do know that it's still possible 🙂

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Geocoding_using_SAS_and_Google_Maps

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Driving_Distances_and_Drive_Times_using_SAS_and_Google_Maps

Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates

KevEile — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:26:10 GMT

Reeza,

Thanks for digging these out for me. Unfortunately I have not been able to adapt these to work for me

From the first source, http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Geocoding_using_SAS_and_Google_Maps, I get the following errors

ERROR: Host name maps.google.com not found.

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, C:\GoogleGeocode\Googlexml2.xml.

There doesn't appear to be any reference to what this XML file contains

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, C:\GoogleGeocode\Googlexmlmap.map.

ERROR: Encountered during XMLMap parsing at or near line 1, column 1.

ERROR: XML describe error: Internal processing error.

I have created the .map file exactly as specified but it seems to be causing errors. I have no experience with XML at all so I'm wondering if you have been able to get it to work?

Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates

Reeza — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:22:20 GMT

I know the second one works...

Re: Google Maps CoOrdinates

JamieFay — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:47:48 GMT

What is the minimum version number of Enterprise Guide this will work with please?

I'm using EG 6.1 and I'm being told by our IT support team that the reason I'm getting a "Host not Found" error is because this isn't supported in the version we run, and nothing to do with the setup or my access priviledges.

Thanks,

Jamie