Python basemap in google colaboratory

Question

I used to use the following commands to install libgeos and basemap in google colaboratory and it worked perfectly until last week.

!apt-get -qq install libgeos-dev
!pip install -qq https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/master.zip
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap, cm

The error shows

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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-f27b0fbc3a52> in <module>()
----> 1 from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap, cm
      2 from matplotlib.patches import Polygon

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py in 
<module>()
150 
151 # create dictionary that maps epsg codes to Basemap kwargs.
--> 152 epsgf = open(os.path.join(pyproj.pyproj_datadir,'epsg'))
153 epsg_dict={}
154 for line in epsgf:

AttributeError: module 'pyproj' has no attribute 'pyproj_datadir'

Is there anyone know how to fix it? Thanks.

Windsor

It seems to have something to do with the latest pyproj release (2.0.1), which was released on 10.03.2019. Try installing older version of pyproj, eg. pip install pyproj==1.9.6) – Winterfeed

It works. Thanks! – Windsor

@Winterfeed this may be worth an actual answer. – Mcgee

@Chantwaffle: Yes, it works. Do as Thomas Kuhn suggested. – Caesarism

Answer 1

It seems to have something to do with the latest pyproj release (2.0.1), which was released on 10.03.2019. Try installing older version of pyproj, eg. pip install pyproj==1.9.6

Winterfeed