From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 08:29:10 -0700
Subject: Use the datafile in the python-mpltoolkits.basemap-data package,

 if BASEMAPDATA is not set
Patch-Name: use_share_datafiles
Forwarded: not-needed
---
 src/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py b/src/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py
index 45a9254..d3e36e1 100644
--- a/src/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py
+++ b/src/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ if 'BASEMAPDATA' in os.environ:
     if not os.path.isdir(basemap_datadir):
         raise RuntimeError('Path in environment BASEMAPDATA not a directory')
 else:
-    from mpl_toolkits import basemap_data
-    basemap_datadir = os.path.abspath(list(basemap_data.__path__)[0])
+    basemap_datadir = "/usr/share/basemap/data"
 
 # module variable that sets the default value for the 'latlon' kwarg.
 # can be set to True by user so plotting functions can take lons,lats
