Date:         Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:54:03 -0600
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      SAS/GIS (and competitors)
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A while back, a regular contibutor opined that SAS/GIS has good data
manipulation capabilities, but is weak in spatial manipulation.  Is that
still true?  I have seen a recent version in use, and it seemed to do a
lot of work in the data step with macros and SCL, rather than having
built-in (and optimized) functionality.

Some of you have probably done comparisons of SAS/GIS, MapInfo, and
ArcView/ArcInfo:  what conclusions did you reach?



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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Manager, Technical Development
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA