OSError geos_c could not be found when Installing Shapely

Question

I\'m a newbie to making/plotting on maps with python, been trying to follow this blogpost to generate a world map (http://sciblogs.co.nz/seeing-data/2011/08/12/plotting-geog

Answer 1

With OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Boxen, I had do do this:

brew install geos
sudo mkdir /opt/local
sudo ln -s /opt/boxen/homebrew/lib /opt/local/lib

to let Shapely find libgeos_c.dylib in one of the locations it was willing to look for it.