Overview of Custom Polygon Data

To add custom polygon data into an existing SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 environment, there are certain requirements. By default, SAS Visual Analytics supports country- and state-level polygons for regional overlays in geographic visualizations. Data for these levels is provided as part of the included GfK license.
The necessary steps to access your own custom polygons in SAS Visual Analytics are provided. Polygon data is usually provided in shape files and needs to be imported into SAS.
Examples are provided for US counties and for German provinces, but the information applies to all polygon sets for which the correct data structure is provided. Some steps might need modification depending on the environment, file types, or formats used.
CAUTION:
Steps to modify an existing SAS configuration and related data files are included.
Be sure to back up the current SAS environment before loading polygon data.
Last updated: December 18, 2018