Using pip install to install Cartopy but missing Proj version at least 4.9.0
According to response to the corresponding Github issue, https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/issues/85#issuecomment-372532728, ubuntu users need to install some extra packages before installing Cartopy. sudo apt-get install libproj-dev proj-data proj-bin sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev sudo pip install cython sudo pip install cartopy