Consider moving the pip package away from sourceforge

Currently, the url for basemap in pypi points at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/matplotlib/matplotlib-toolkits/basemap-1.0.7/basemap-1.0.7.tar.gz. This means that in order to install basemap, one has to type the rather scary-looking and lengthy pip3 install --allow-external basemap --allow-unverified basemap basemap. Given this and some relatively shady stuff sourceforge have engaged in recently, I think it’s a good idea for you to move the distribution and update the pypi listing accordingly.

[heitorPB]

any news, @WeatherGod ?

I’m also in a similar situation of @quang-ha:

$ pip search basemap
basemap (1.0.7)         - Plot data on map projections with matplotlib
projmap (0.7.2)         - High level wrapper of matplotlib-Basemap
tilemapbase (0.4.3)     - Use OpenStreetMap tiles as basemaps in python / matplotlib
basemap_Jim (0.1.1)     - basemap of Northwestern Atlantic Coastline for python plotting  .
Circles (0.1)           - Draw correctly-projected circles on a Basemap plot
daynight2geojson (0.1)  - Get day and night global geometry and dumps to a GeoJSON file. Builded on top of
                          Matplotlib Basemap Toolkit Library.
(venv) 
$ pip install basemap
Collecting basemap
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement basemap (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for basemap
(venv)

[dstufft]

Yea, you can upload to Warehouse now, but you’ll want to be aware of pypa/warehouse#1194.