[GIS] geopandas can’t import

geopandaspyprojpythonpython 3

I've installed geopandas on ubuntu 17.10 and can't import geopandas. I can't find this particular error anywhere.

from pyproj import _proj
ImportError: cannot import name '_proj'

I'm using a virtual environment with Python 3.6.3 GDAL 2.2.1
I ran pip install geopandas which also installed dependencies.
Here is output of pip list:

bleach (2.1.2)
click (6.7)
click-plugins (1.0.3)
cligj (0.4.0)
cycler (0.10.0)
decorator (4.1.2)
descartes (1.1.0)
entrypoints (0.2.3)
Fiona (1.6.0)
geopandas (0.3.0)
html5lib (1.0.1)
ipykernel (4.7.0)
ipython (6.2.1)
ipython-genutils (0.2.0)
ipywidgets (7.1.0)
jedi (0.11.1)
Jinja2 (2.10)
jsonschema (2.6.0)
jupyter (1.0.0)
jupyter-client (5.2.1)
jupyter-console (5.2.0)
jupyter-core (4.4.0)
MarkupSafe (1.0)
matplotlib (2.1.1)
mistune (0.8.3)
munch (2.2.0)
nbconvert (5.3.1)
nbformat (4.4.0)
notebook (5.2.2)
numpy (1.14.0)
pandas (0.22.0)
pandocfilters (1.4.2)
parso (0.1.1)
pexpect (4.3.1)
pickleshare (0.7.4)
pip (9.0.1)
pkg-resources (0.0.0)
prompt-toolkit (1.0.15)
ptyprocess (0.5.2)
Pygments (2.2.0)
pyparsing (2.2.0)
pyproj (1.9.5.1)
python-dateutil (2.6.1)
pytz (2017.3)
pyzmq (16.0.3)
qtconsole (4.3.1)
setuptools (38.4.0)
Shapely (1.6.3)
simplegeneric (0.8.1)
six (1.11.0)
terminado (0.8.1)
testpath (0.3.1)
tornado (4.5.3)
traitlets (4.3.2)
wcwidth (0.1.7)
webencodings (0.5.1)
widgetsnbextension (3.1.0)

Best Answer

Had the same problem and ended with installing python3 with anaconda, and then installed geopandas with conda install -c conda-forge geopandas

conda-forge is community curated packaging for python distribution of anaconda. Since installing geopandas is a hell, they created packages of versions that work with each other. Since then I haven't encountered any problems.

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