Hi,

Which version of SAS do you use ?

hello dear

you should be use SAS/GIS software to import data SAS/GIS can be useful.

http://support.sas.com/

i hope help to find your answer question.

best regard

@Mehran: There is really no need for SAS/GIS. Based on SAS version, (especially in SAS 9.3) plotting and formatting the maps are very easy and handy. 

Check out the data structure of the internal dataset utilized in SAS/Help/GMAP, for its example below:   

goptions reset=all border;

title1 "Population in Europe";

footnote1 j=r "GMPCHORO";

proc gmap map=maps.europe(where=(id ne 405 and id ne 845))

data=sashelp.demographics(where=(cont=93)) all;

id id;

choro pop / cdefault=yellow;

run; quit;

Look at the structure of the data set, sashelp.demographics, and make sure your data structure is set up similarly.

Thank you all, 

the SAS version I am using is 9.0.

I have once tried SAS/GIS, too. I prefer using proc gmap.

Thank you, Miss Jannausch, I will try it.