"Pip installs from PyPI. There are no releases of the basemap package on PyPI, it is just a simple registration page pointing at the real download location (SourceForge).
Conda pulls from its own repository, typically with convenience builds of libraries common to the community Conda is aimed at. Conda’s repository has a version of the basemap package available for installation, so it succeeds.
This is not to say that Pip is “worse” than Conda in this instance, as you could easily download the package and install it with pip locally. This particular library has just opted to not add releases to PyPI."
转载自 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31899966/pip-install-vs-conda-install/31900002#31900002