Controlling ESRI background map fonts and borders

[NNguy]

Hi,

I'm plotting US and some CA datapoints using SGMAP with ESRI background map.  ESRI map has cities and state labels and I want to make the cities and states text font larger and to thicken the states borders.

My code:

ods graphics /
width=16in height=14in;

proc sgmap
plotdata=Info_us ;
esrimap url="http://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Street_Map";
scatter x=long y=lat / markerattrs=(symbol=circlefilled size=4pt color='blue') ;
run;
quit;

Thanks.

[GraphGuy]

When using the Esri (or Openstreetmap) maps in the background, you cannot control the thickness of the borders/roads/etc, or the size of the text (city names, etc). These are all images handed down from the Esri (or Openstreetmap) server.

[DanH_sas]

As @GraphGuy said, you can't do anything about the tile information; but if you want thicker state borders, you can overlay a CHOROMAP of the US without any response variable, which should give you thicker outlines of the states.

Hope this helps!

Dan

[NNguy]

Thanks Robert.

What would you recommend if I do if I want to recreate that map? 

I would like map with interstate system, state and territory borders.  Maybe Alber projection.

Should I import my data in ArcGIS and map it in with ArcGIS? Or should I get US and Canada shapefiles and map with SAS?

Thanks!

[GraphGuy]

Do you have an example of what you'd like the final map to look like?

[NNguy]

Ideally this map but with legible city and state names and thicker border around states.

I would like to show US interstate HW, which is why i'm using ESRI World_Street_Map as a background, the topology is a nice touch too. They data points are Trauma Centers that are in my program and in the near future I would like to incorporate geospatial statistics such as transfer times and rurality (but that's a long ways away).


I have to go just a bit north of Edmonton since I have datapoints there and suppressing Mexico would be nice because I don't have datapoints south of continental US.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_sGXsPXoAALDwl.jpg:large