Hi ballardw, The characters need to appear as marker symbols in the body of the graph. Below is the code where I used symbolchar to create the each symbol with the unicode character. This works fine for the symbols with numbers 1 through 20.  However, starting with 21 it is a different charcater code set and everything 21 and above does not work.   Thanks!   PROC SGPLOT DATA = map_coordinates noborder nowall NOAUTOLEGEND NOCYCLEATTRS sganno = annoImage; TITLE; YAXIS grid gridattrs = (color = black) display = (noline nolabel noticks novalues) values=(0 to 100 by 5); XAXIS grid gridattrs = (color = black) display =(noline nolabel noticks novalues) values=(0 to 100 by 5); symbolchar name=one char='2460'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=two char='2461'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=three char='2462'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=four char='2463'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=five char='2464'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=six char='2465'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=seven char='2466'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=eight char='2467'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=nine char='2468'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=ten char='2469'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=eleven char='246A'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twelve char='246B'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=thirteen char='246C'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=fourteen char='246D'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=fifteen char='246E'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=sixteen char='246F'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=seventeen char='2470'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=eighteen char='2471'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=nineteen char='2472'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twenty char='2473'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twentyone char='3251'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twentytwo char='3252'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twentytheree char='3253'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twentyfour char='3254'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twentyfive char='3255'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); symbolchar name=twentysix char='3256'x / textattrs = (weight = bold); styleattrs datasymbols = ( one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twentyone twentytwo twentythree twentyfour twentyfive twentysix ); SCATTER x = X_Coordinate y = Y_Coordinate/ markerattrs = (size = 16) group = site_number nomissinggroup name = 'sites'; yaxis min=0 max=100 /*grid values=(0 to 100 by 5)*/ offsetmin=0 offsetmax=0 display= none; xaxis min=0 max=100 /*grid values=(0 to 100 by 5)*/ offsetmin=0 offsetmax=0 display=none; run; quit; ods listing close; ... View more

Thanks for your help with this GraphGuy!   Made great progress using your code suggestions.  Now I am making the two country borders thicker and darker than the state/province borders.  For some reason the US/Canada border is a double line above Montana.  Can you identify what is causing that?   Thank you! DM 'LOG;CLEAR;OUT;CLEAR;'; OPTIONS Missing = '' LS=128 PAGESIZE=36 NONUMBER; goptions reset=all border cback=white htitle=12pt htext=10pt; data map_us; set mapsgfk.us_states (where=(statecode not in ('AK' 'HI') and density<=4)); my_id=statecode; country='US'; run; data map_canada; set mapsgfk.canada (where=(id1 not in ('CA-60' 'CA-61' 'CA-62') and density<=1)); run; proc gremove data=map_canada out=map_canada; by id1; id id; run; data map_canada; set map_canada; my_id=id1; country='CA'; run; data mapall; length my_id $8; set map_us map_canada; run; proc sql noprint; create table mapall_attr as select unique country, my_id, segment, 1 as fakedata from mapall; quit; run; proc gproject data=mapall out=mapall_proj latlong eastlong degrees project=gnomon; id country my_id; run; proc gremove data=mapall_proj out=anno_outline; by country notsorted; id my_id; run; data anno_outline; set anno_outline; by country segment notsorted; length function $8 color $8; color='gray33'; style='mempty'; when='a'; xsys='2'; ysys='2'; if first.segment then function='poly'; else function='polycont'; run; FILENAME plots "C\Output Files"; goptions reset=all DEVICE=gif xpixels=1200 ypixels=1000 transparency GSFNAME=plots; ods _all_ close; ods listing; pattern1 v=solid color=white; proc gmap map=mapall_proj data=mapall_attr anno=anno_outline all; id country my_id; choro fakedata / levels=1 nolegend coutline=graydd; run; quit; ... View more

I was initially using the maps.states and maps.canada4 datasets. However, I switched to mapsgfk.us and mapsgfk.canada because the mapsgfk.canada4 dataset includes the LAKE variable so I can exclude the lakes from the Canada map. Is there any way to prevent the lakes from displaying using the maps.canada4 dataset?   ... View more