Look at:  http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/#2013 Then find the paper title:  PROC GEOCODE: Finding Locations Outside the U.S. Under the title is a link to the paper and a link to the examples. We do not have the street level geocoding in the UK.  We have Postal Code (ZIP Code) geocoding and world wide cities.   Unless you have a Google Map license, you should avoid using their free geocoder other than ON their maps.  You are not supposed to use it to store the data from their Geocoder. That is why SAS doesn't have an integration with Google. ... View more

Look at this post first.  This person was asking for a simular thing: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-GRAPH-and-ODS-Graphics/About-GEO-MAP/m-p/325610/highlight/true#M11414   ... View more

Looking at the data in your map data set, it appears to be projected. It is a similar projection to our MAPSGFK.CANADA data set.  If you do all of Canada it is on the same angle as when you display Alberta only.  You need to find what projection it is in to "unproject" it with Proc GPROJECT and the PROJ4 options (From= and To=). Here is the code: data alberta; set mapsgfk.canada; /*Uncomment for UNPROJECTED*/ /*x=long; y=lat;*/ if id1="CA-48" then output; run; proc gmap map=alberta data=alberta; id id; choro id; run; Here is MAPSGFK.CANADA projected and unprojected:   ... View more

Is it failing in Proc GEOCODE?  Or something else?  What file are you opening that is failing?  I don't think it is MAPSGFK.WORLD_CITIES since it isn't UTF8.  Is your address data set UTF8?   I think you will need to talk to Tech Support.  I suspect that your data set is UTF8 and you need to invoke SAS as a UTF8 session but I do not know how to do that with Enterprise Guide.  Tech Support will be able to help you. ... View more

All the example code is here (for this paper): http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/#2013 Look for the title of the paper: PROC GEOCODE: Finding Locations Outside the U.S. Under that are two links.  One for the paper and one for a Zipfile of the examples.   You need to look at MAPSGFK.WORLD_CITIES to see if the city names match.  Look at the other columns to see if matches your data (such as MapIDName). ... View more

If you have the city and want to do a City geocoding, look at the second paper that is mentioned above. There is a world geocoding lookup for cities.   ... View more

There are sources of French Postal Codes.  For example: https://www.aggdata.com/free/france-postal-codes I no nothing about this data nor how up to date it is.    Perhaps you can put it in the format that Proc GEOCODE needs.  Look in the second paper mentioned above or in the Doc files on http://support.sas.com/   ... View more

It seems you want to read the Planet File.   As I said, it is huge.  I believe that it is between 50 and 60 GB compressed and over 700 GB uncompressed. I haven't tried to read the individual components from it or do what you want to do.   The Planet File is at: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ And information in: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm   Good luck.  Tell us about your experience reading it. ... View more

We also use OSM in Proc GMAP.  See the paper: http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/#2013 Google-like Maps in SAS There is a paper and the examples there.  We just use the rendered image of the map.  So, we return an image to SAS and VA. The Planet File from OSM is huge!   ... View more

Well, someone must have intentionally NOT installed the maps then.  The mainframe if a little different, but it doesn't impact you. The MAPSGFK are larger than the MAPSSAS maps, so it would take a while to install them ALL over the web.  We talked about putting them into one bundle, but I do not think we did that yet.   I will look into where the bundling them stands. ... View more

What Operating System are you running on? What version of SAS did you install? Do you have SAS/Graph? Are you talking about MAPS (MAPSSAS) or MAPSGFK?   There are 3 libnames.  MAPS, MAPSSAS and MAPSGFK. By default, MAPS points to MAPSSAS.  It is the old maps that hasn't changed in a while. MAPSGFK is the newer maps that we get updates for. To install MAPSSAS and/or MAPSGFK, you must have SAS/Graph. There is also an option in installing SAS where you can EXCLUDE either or both of these maps.  The default is to install them.   You can download MAPSSAS from the MAPSONLINE website. You can download MAPSGKF from there ONLY if you have SAS/Graph.  There are Legal reasons (with GfK) and it checks you site number to make sure you have SAS/Graph.    MAPSONLINE link:  http://support.sas.com/mapsonline    under "Downloads". The MAPSSAS Link:  http://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/mapsonline/html/v92maps.html The MAPSGFK Link:  http://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/mapsonline/html/gfkmaps_93m2.html   ... View more

Are you talking about an Esri Shapefiles?  We can read those into SAS MVA with Proc MAPIMPORT and create a SAS Data Step. We cannot write them back out with SAS VA or SAS MVA.   ... View more