FileNotFound when importing basemap

[statiksof]

When I do:

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap

I get:

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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-b18c5f1c9a35> in <module>()
----> 1 from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap, cm

/opt/conda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py in <module>()
    144 
    145 # create dictionary that maps epsg codes to Basemap kwargs.
--> 146 epsgf = open(os.path.join(pyproj.pyproj_datadir,'epsg'))
    147 epsg_dict={}
    148 for line in epsgf:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'epsg'

[gaswani]

I managed to find a solution to this error. I found the solution at https://conda-forge.org/

In the bash terminal I first typed :

$ conda config --add channels conda-forge

Followed by:

$ conda install basemap

I thereafter ran my script in Juptyer notebook and the error was gone. I was able to plot the Chloropeth map of the world.

[statiksof]

This was fixed for my case by installing the new basemap (instead of the old build) and then setting up the PROJ_LIB in Dockerfile.