From 6e5d3d72deaba801158b7f055df21473426487de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hensman <james.hensman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:10:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] removed shapefile dep.

---
 GPy/util/__init__.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/GPy/util/__init__.py b/GPy/util/__init__.py
index 7d71c83c..398dd252 100644
--- a/GPy/util/__init__.py
+++ b/GPy/util/__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ import visualize
 import decorators
 import classification
 import latent_space_visualizations
-import maps
+try:
+    import maps
+except:
+    pass
+    maps = "warning: the maps module requires pyshp (shapefile). Install it to remove this message"
 
 try:
     import sympy