Basemap is a Python package, which never releases new update after 2014. It’s easy to use in Linux or OS X but not easy to install on Windows. It doesn’t supply setup-package for Python 3.4 or 3.5 or newer version.
Link Error When Compiling and Installing Python Package in Windows
It’s usually easy to install a Python package in Windows with pip or other pre-built binaries. However, sometimes we must build the binary from source by ourselves, such as Basemap module, a part of matplotlib-toolkit.Then we may meet some error
Python 3使用Basemap导入ESRI信息的问题
Basemap使用自带的shapefile.py处理ESRI的shapefile，但是Basemap自带的shapefile版本过低(1.1.x)，其中存在一个bug导致使用Python 3.x版本时无法正确处理Windows-1252编码的二进制文件。典型错误：
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File "D:\Python34\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\shapefile.py", line 58, in u return v.decode('utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 2: invalid continuation byte |
解决方法一： 使用pip安装pyshp ( pip install pyshp )，或者手动下载最新版本的pyshp，并且将shapefile.py拷贝到Basemap的目录中( <python-install-prefix>\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap )。 解决方法二： 按照一的方式使用pip安装pyshp，并且修改Basemap的源代码，将__init__.py中shapefile模块的import语句略作修改，不再使用相对路径的导入方式并删除Basemap目录中的shapefile.py。修改之前为
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from . import shapefile as shp from .shapefile import Reader |
修改之后为
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import shapefile as shp from shapefile import Reader |
使用方法二的一个好处是，使用pip更新pyshp后不需要再更新Basemap中的shapefile.py