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If you care about your colors, and want them to look consistent no matter what type of output you're creating (png, svg, java, activex, javaimg, actximg, pdf, etc) ... I suggest always using the hex rgb color codes. ... View more

Is there a way to get the lines to start at zero? ... View more

As Jeff says, Alaska & Hawaii have been moved/projected/scaled differently from the rest of the US, in this particular map (mapsgfk.us). Therefore, there is no one/simple command that will move/project/scale arbitrary lat/long coordinates and have them line up with the map.   But ... mapsgfk.uscity has applied the same move/project/scale to all the mapsgfk.uscity locations, so they line up with mapsgfk.us ... and therefore if you find the closest city to each of your lat/long locations, you could look up the x/y from mapsgfk.uscity, and plot those locations on the map. Here's a small example showing all the mapsgfk.uscity locations overlaid on mapsgfk.us:   title "mapsgfk.us with mapsgfk.uscity locations overlaid"; proc sgmap mapdata=mapsgfk.us noautolegend plotdata=mapsgfk.uscity; choromap / mapid=statecode; scatter x=x y=y / markerattrs=(size=1px color=red symbol=circlefilled) transparency=0; run;     ... View more

Why would you want any ticks on that axis at all? What purpose do they serve? ... View more

@tc  never disappoints! ... View more

Here's how to do it without combining/projecting/separating the map & data, by using the somewhat new feature of saving the projection parameters for the map and then applying them to the annotate dataset:   data zips; input c zip; cards; 1 65203 2 65211 3 65201 ; proc geocode data=zips out=geocodedzips (rename=(x=long y=lat)); run; data mocounties; set mapsgfk.us_counties (where=(statecode='MO')); run; proc gproject data=mocounties out=mocounties latlong eastlong degrees parmout=projparm; id county; run; proc gproject data=geocodedzips out=geocodedzips latlong eastlong degrees parmin=projparm parmentry=mocounties; id; run; data anno_locations; set geocodedzips; if c=1 then color="red"; if c=2 then color="bib"; if c=3 then color="viyg"; if c=4 then color="bippk"; xsys='2'; ysys='2'; hsys='3'; when='a'; function='pie'; rotate=360; size=.5; style='psolid'; output; length html $300; html='title='||quote(trim(left(c))||'0d'x||trim(left(put(zip,z5.)))); style='pempty'; color='deb'; output; run; pattern1 v=e; proc gmap map=mocounties data=mocounties anno=anno_locations; id county; choro segment / coutline=black levels=1 nolegend coutline=gray99; ... View more

Could you provide the code you used to produce your gchart pie chart? ... View more

Hypothetically, you could draw bars on a 2d map using annotate (where the bar starts at the center of each state, and the height of the bars is scaled based on the data). I'm not sure it would be a great way to present data, and not sure it would be worth the work. ... View more

Examples are a *lot* more useful, when they include the sample data! ... View more

The maps in the blog post show numeric (lat/long) axes - I've never seen Proc SGMAP do that. Are you 100% certain they were created with SGMAP?   ... View more

Yep - interesting blog post. ... But it doesn't appear they used SAS to create any of the maps in the blog post(?) ... View more

Someone mentioned SAS/GIS - that would probably be the best SAS solution for this type of thing ... but it was never finished, and the current version of the software has been 'frozen' (no new decelopment) for many years, and it would be difficult to find expertise/advice/examples to help you with that.   You could plot lat/long crime data on streetmaps using SAS/Graph Proc Gmap, but it's a bit cumbersome (you have to download all the map tiles, and stitch them together, and then get a bit tricky to annotate your data onto the map tile images).   SAS Proc SGmap makes overlaying lat/long data onto streetmaps very simple - that's what I would recommend. I put an example in a blog that might get you started (sample code at bottom of the blog): https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2021/08/17/cary-nc-data-fire-incidents/     ... View more

You could use the value of the 'present' variable to control the color of the dots, such as ...   data coordinates; set coordinates; length color $12; xsys='2'; ysys='2'; hsys='3'; when='a'; function='pie'; rotate=360; size=1.0;  if present=0 then color='red';  else if present=1 then color='green'; run; ... View more

Not sure exactly when it was upgraded, but looks like it's at 9.4m7 now (Feb 2024) ...   %put &=SYSVLONG; SYSVLONG=9.04.01M7P080620   So a bunch of the last features added to sgmap should work now: https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2020/09/25/new-sgmap-features-in-sas-9-4m7/   ... View more

I have a couple of similar examples on this page, that might interest you. (they're on the last row of thumbnails - bottom/left):   https://robslink.com/SAS/democd_mpg/aaaindex.htm   ... View more