sverchok-gis-scripts

Basic scripts to import GIS data into blender, through the sverchok addon.

For use with the SNLite node.

3rd party libraries

These scripts rely on the geopandas library, which like any 3rd party library, can be tricky to install with blender.

using pip

To install geopandas, I used pip, and referenced this page: http://www.codeplastic.com/2019/03/12/how-to-install-python-modules-in-blender/

common errors

While doing this, I ran into a few issues. Here are brief descriptions of these issues and the solutions I found:

• "Install Microsoft Visual Studio C++" If you get an error like this, see this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48541801/microsoft-visual-c-14-0-is-required-get-it-with-microsoft-visual-c-build-t, and start with the steps described in the top answer.
• Cannot install fiona. Fiona is another library that will be installed with geopandas, but I ran into the same issue described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50876702/cant-install-fiona-on-windows. Luckily, following the steps in the top answer solved it for me, which was installing fiona directly with the wheel file found here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#fiona
  • I had to do the same steps for the GDAL library, the wheel files can be found on the same site: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#gdal

other

This is a comprehensive thread about geopandas installation issues, worth a read if you are stuck installing geopandas: https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/issues/1812