Nina,

First, I don't know. Given that it start happening in the late afternoon, is there a chance that late afternoon is the first time in the day that you are adding points from Hawaii and the Virgin Islands?

Art -------- On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:37:19 +0200, nina <sas@MAILINATOR.COM> wrote:

>I have this piece of code running on a machine several times a day, about 1 >hour interval > >goptions reset=global xpixels=2000 ypixels=1500 > gfsname=gout device=png htext=2 gunit=pct; > >filename gout "<server address here>" ; >pattern value=me color=grey repeat=50; > >proc gmap data=map map=map; id state; > choro state / anno=dot discrete nolegend; >run; > >what is strange is that at times, usually late afternoons when there are >lots of datapoints mapped into the map (as colored dots), the map rotates >itself into an angle, so instead of a flat US Map, it is now suddenly >written at a 45 degree angle, with florida on it's side as opposed to >north-south orientation and california-oregon is at the top of the map >(because it's mostly sideways) > >most of the time, it writes a normal map that is oriented straight but at >the end of the day, sometime around 21:00 or later, I get nothing but angled >maps > >why might this be happening ?