Jos de Kloe

so wouldn't it be an idea to make cartopy a requirement for basemap and replace the basemap code behind the scenes with cartopy calls?

Thanks, I understand the difficulty. Same for me, I don't have the possibility to spend a huge amount of time doing this. Another idea is to provide some hints to...

> Dear Jos > Can you tell us precisely which tests fail? Sure. I see the following 4 tests fail after applying these patches and running the tests: The following...

that's strange. I just did a test on my own linux machine, and there I do not see this symlink problem. The installed module in $HOME/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pybufr_ecmwf/ is just 18MB in...

OK, thanks for your investigations. I am thinking of getting rid of these symlinks completely in a next version, but this will require some recoding. It may take a while...

Thanks for your report. Just a few questions to make the problem more clear. It seems you are using python3 from an anaconda install. -what numpy version does this contain?...

Thanks for reporting back. I still would be interested to now what the conditions where in which the install failed. Maybe I can improve something. As for the NCEP BUFR...

After some testing I can report that the bufr files from ucar are currently not compatible with the ECMWF bufr reading software. I tried both the old bufrdc and the...

mmm, this is not very clear. My first advice would be to report this to the author of this code, but I see you already did. Then, when I run...

Thanks again for sharing your solution. I'll relabel remaining request to support loading ncep bufr files in pybufr-ecmwf as a feature-request (enhamcement).