I'm having trouble to get the basemap to work in Python in my Mac.
I keep receiving:
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import basemap
ImportError: No module named basemap
What I did:
brew install gdal
brew install gets
export GEOS_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/geos/3.4.2/
basemap-1.0.7 $ python setup.py install
I also tried:
basemap-1.0.7 $ cd geos-3.3.3
basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ export GEOS_DIR=~/
basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ ./configure --prefix=$GEOS_DIR
basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ make
basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ make install
basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ cd ..
basemap-1.0.7 $ python setup.py install
None of them worked for me. How can I get this package to work on a MacOS Sierra?
On 10.14 Mojave today I did:
brew install geos
pip3 install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/master.zip
and it seems to work (mine is Python 3.6 from https://python.org with matplotlib installed by pip).
Did you ever manage to get it working?
I was able to install Basemap fine on Sierra (also using Homebrew for its dependencies), following the instructions here: http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html
A couple notes, just to make sure nothing is being overlooked:
brew install gets, though I assume it was a typo and you actually meant & used brew install geos when installing.export GEOS_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/geos/3.5.0/. The version can be verified by looking in your /usr/local/Cellar/geos/ directory to see which one is installed.source ~/.bash_profile.This is a full list of what I did:
brew install matplotlib
brew install numpy
brew install geos
brew install proj
Downloaded Basemap 1.0.7 source tar file (https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-toolkits/), untarred it.
Added export GEOS_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/geos/3.5.0/ to a new line in my .bash_profile, and then reloaded it via:
source ~/.bash_profile
From within untarred Basemap directory:
python setup.py install
Imported Basemap in a python script (via a tutorial elsewhere) with import mpl_toolkits.basemap as bm, and was able to confirm it worked with a produced map.
I had trouble installing Basemap on macOS Catalina. Got all the dependencies installed but Basemap itself was giving me trouble.
I wound up needing to install with
$ pip3 install /path/to/basemap.tar.gz --user
after downloading the latest release archive from the releases page.
Not sure if it’ll help anyone else, but after an hour of flailing and trying different things, it got me up and running where trying to install from GitHub (which would build, but not install, a wheel for Basemap) and directly compiling wouldn’t.