Navigating SAS Mapping Technologies

Overview

Every organization has location-based data. The difficulty is in effectively transforming that data into useful information or intelligence. SAS has numerous powerful mapping technologies and tools to transform with the location data. This paper provides a brief overview of these technologies and tools. The mapping technologies include all of the methods of viewing maps and the mapping tools include some new and important tools for dealing with spatial data. Some of the mapping technologies use ESRI's ArcGIS software to display the maps. The mapping technologies have been divided into several groups. These include those that use ArcGIS desktop software, ESRI's ArcGIS server software, SAS/GIS software and SAS/Graph mapping software.