Colab error : ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'geopandas'

Question

When I try to import geopandas package in "Google Colaboratory" I got the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'geopandas'".

I will appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Colaboratory comes with some non-base-Python packages "pre-installed"/already available for import. It doesn't include every single package however. For packages that aren't already included, like geopandas, you need to add a cell for installing the package:

% pip install geopandas

Run this cell before any cells where you want to import/use geopandas.

See also this SO thread (especially the answer by Doug Blank, a bit further down).

Answer 2

Check if geopandas is installed

>>> import sys
>>> 'geopandas' in sys.modules

To install the released version, you can use pip (in Google Colab, do not forget to include character ! before pip):

!pip install geopandas

Here is the notebook with only installing Gdal, geopandas and descartes to work ploting and spatial join. Geopandas Colab