title: Installation Error: installing basemap on windows
body: <p>I'm trying to install basemap, and it seems worked fine using,</p>
  
  <pre><code>conda install -c conda-forge basemap
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in anaconda prompt. However when I entered this code on my jupyternotebook,  </p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it showed an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-2-4fc84cbcc854&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
    1 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  ----&gt; 2 from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
  
  ~\Documents\DataScience\data\lib\site- 
  packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\__init__.py in &lt;module&gt;()
  144 
  145 # create dictionary that maps epsg codes to Basemap kwargs.
  --&gt; 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'
  </code></pre>