title: Installing basemap on Mac / Python
body: <p>I'm having trouble to get the basemap to work in Python in my Mac.</p>
  
  <p>I keep receiving:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    from mpl_toolkits.basemap import basemap
  ImportError: No module named basemap
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I did:</p>
  
  <pre><code>brew install gdal
  brew install gets
  export GEOS_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/geos/3.4.2/
  basemap-1.0.7 $ python setup.py install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>basemap-1.0.7 $ cd geos-3.3.3
  basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ export GEOS_DIR=~/
  basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ ./configure --prefix=$GEOS_DIR
  basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ make
  basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ make install
  basemap-1.0.7/geos-3.3.3 $ cd ..
  basemap-1.0.7 $ python setup.py install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>None of them worked for me. 
  How can I get this package to work on a MacOS Sierra?</p>