In the following example,World30.shp contains polygons that compose a political boundary world map. All the field identifiers in the World30.shp file are included in the traditional map data set, MYWORLD.

This example and the remaining examples in this section use shapefiles with the .shp and .dbf extensions. Replace the shapefiles locations, filenames, and field-identifiers with information from your shapefiles to run these examples.

PROC MAPIMPORT OUT=myworld DATAFILE="C:\world30.shp";
run;