Originally posted by **tomvothecoder** April 8, 2024
Hello, I'm going through the [Visualizing Grid Topology](https://uxarray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/006-plot-api-topology.html) notebook in the documentation.
I tried to run `grid.plot` but get `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spatialpandas'`.
```python
File ~/miniforge3/envs/xcdat_test_uxarray/lib/python3.12/site-packages/uxarray/grid/geometry.py:134, in _build_geodataframe_with_antimeridian(polygon_shells, antimeridian_face_indices)
131 """Builds a ``spatialpandas.GeoDataFrame`` including any faces that cross
132 the antimeridian."""
133 # import optional dependencies
--> 134 from spatialpandas.geometry import MultiPolygonArray
135 from spatialpandas import GeoDataFrame
137 polygons = _build_corrected_shapely_polygons(
138 polygon_shells, antimeridian_face_indices
139 )
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spatialpandas'
```
I assumed that `uxarray` would include `spatialpandas` since the [Installation](https://uxarray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html) page doesn't list optional dependencies. However, I see that the [conda recipe](https://github.com/conda-forge/uxarray-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml) doesn't list `spatialpandas` and the stack trace says it is an optional dependency (line 133 above).
I'm just making sure if I should install `spatialpandas` alongside `uxarray`. Thanks!
philipc2
commented
2 months ago
Discussed in https://github.com/UXARRAY/uxarray/discussions/756