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Click here to see the example.
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See my blog for more information about this graph!
This example has *so* much potential, and works *so* well in sas/graph!
With all the GPS satellites orbiting the earth, making it easy to
determine your exact longitude/latitude position with small/inexpensive
GPS tracking devices, I think there will be a *huge* demand for flexible
software that will let you show this type of information on a map,
in a variety of ways.
This could be useful for all sorts of things:
o Tracking endangered wildlife.
o Tracking delivery truck locations.
o Tracking rental car travel paths.
o Tracking convicts on parole or under house-arrest.
o Tracking ships and submarines.
o Tracking stolen cars that have gps transmitters.
o Tracking storms.
o Etc, etc, etc.
I use several neat features to generate this map.
I use "proc gproject" to clip out just this rectangular region of the map.
I use annotate to draw the long/lat gridlines and labels.
I use annotate's "html" variable to add "title" charttip/flyover-text to
the turtle location markers.
I also use annotate's "html" variable to add "href" drilldowns to the
turtle location markers, so when you click on the marker it will take
you to a mapquest map centered on that exact long/lat location.
I use "proc gmap" html= option to add "title" charttip/flyover text to
the map areas, so you can see the county name when you mouse over the
land areas.
I annotate a picture of a turtle, and add title text and href drilldown
so you can go to a website that tells about sea turtles.
The turtle marker/dots are very small annotated solid-colored pies.
They are connected by annotated blue lines. And, I annotate the words
'start' and 'end' at the first and last markers.
Below the map, I use "proc print" to show a table of all the location data.
ODS HTML automatically formats the table nicely for me.
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