I tried to use Basemap package to plot a map by PyCharm, but I got something wrong with
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap`
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I faced same problem. I installed anaconda and install conda install -c anaconda basemap.
I used Anaconda built in IDE named "Spyder". Spyder is better than pycharm. only problem with spyder is lack of intellisense.
I solved problem of Proj4 by setting path.
Other problem kernel restarting when loading of .json larger file dataset.
I use notepad++ and 010 editor to re-save file in small chunks and at last I merged all outputs.