I am just new in using python(x,y) and while trying to plot some map using basemap module, it seems that this module has not been installed yet, and also requires GEOS libraries (??).
I tried to install basemap using pip and easy_install of python(x,y), and both of them were resulting this error message:
Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/matplotlib/matplotlib-toolkits/basemap-1.0.7/basemap-1.0.7.tar.gz Processing basemap-1.0.7.tar.gz Writing c:\users\bunda\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-3bggpy\basemap-1.0.7\setup.cfg Running basemap-1.0.7\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\bunda\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-3bggpy\basemap-1.0.7\egg-dist-tmp-gjqhra checking for GEOS lib in C:\Users\bunda .... checking for GEOS lib in /usr .... checking for GEOS lib in /usr/local .... checking for GEOS lib in /sw .... checking for GEOS lib in /opt .... checking for GEOS lib in /opt/local .... error: Setup script exited with Can't find geos library . Please set the environment variable GEOS_DIR to point to the location where geos is installed (for example, if geos_c.h is in /usr/local/include, and libgeos_c is in /usr/local/lib, set GEOS_DIR to /usr/local), or edit the setup.py script manually and set the variable GEOS_dir (right after the line that says "set GEOS_dir manually here".
Hoping so much there is a solution..
Thank you in advance!!!
The python(x,y) project used to have a plugins page when they were hosted on google code. I don't know what happened to it when the project moved to github.
Fortunately the University of Kent has a mirror. There is a binary installer called basemap-1.0.2_py27.exe that installs basemap in a python(x,y) installation.
Hope that helps.