using basemap on azure notebooks

[leomiquelutti]

Dear,

I am trying to execute some codes on the (also) free cloud service provider Microsoft Azure Notebooks for jupyter notebooks that depend on Basemap but have not been able to.

A way to fetch codes on Azure Notebooks is through !pip install package, but I didn't succeed with Basemap. Is there a way to run Basemap there?

[WeatherGod]

The recommended way to install basemap, is through conda-forge, so run `!conda install -c conda-forge basemap` (assuming that conda is already installed).

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[phobson]

Just a quick note, if you're trying to install from the notebook itself, you'll need to change the command from @WeatherGod to:

!conda install -c conda-forge basemap --yes

Since you won't be able to answer the Yes/No prompt interactively

[leomiquelutti]

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you guys for the comments.

The !conda install -c conda-forge basemap totally crashed my Azure Notebook environment.

I can't even say that the !conda install -c conda-forge basemap --yes will work because I still couldn't fix the environment to try it. Once I fix it, I'll get back here to give you feedback.

[rezapci]

Did you fix it ?

[rezapci]

this is the fix for notebook.azure !pip install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/master.zip

[leomiquelutti]

Nope! My azure notebook environment is still crashed - take a look at this issue. I didn't have the patience to start everything over.

I overcame the problem using mybinder

[molinav]

We now have precompiled binary wheels for Windows, so it should be possible to install basemap with pip as you would do with any other package (for Windows x86 and x64, Python 2.7 and 3.5-3.9):

!pip install basemap

In case you need the high-resolution datasets, you need to install them manually:

!pip install basemap-data-hires

The solution by @rezapci will not work at the moment, because the refactoring of basemap into three separate packages (basemap, basemap-data and basemap-data-hires) implied the movement of the setup.py file to another place different from the project top-level folder, so pip will not know what to do with the repository zip.

If this solution still does not solve your problem, feel free to reopen this issue or create a new one.