title: Error installing geopandas:“ A GDAL API version must be specified ” in Visual Studio Code
body: <p>This error raised while installing geopandas in vs code. I've looking for its solution on the web, but none of them really explain what happened and how to solve it..</p>
  
  <pre><code>Collecting geopandas
    Downloading geopandas-0.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (928 kB)
       |████████████████████████████████| 928 kB 726 kB/s
  Collecting shapely
    Downloading Shapely-1.7.0-cp38-cp38-win32.whl (895 kB)
       |████████████████████████████████| 895 kB 437 kB/s
  Requirement already satisfied: pandas&gt;=0.23.0 in c:\users\mayank\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from geopandas) (1.0.3)
  Collecting fiona
    Downloading Fiona-1.8.13.post1.tar.gz (1.2 MB)
       |████████████████████████████████| 1.2 MB 506 kB/s
      ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
       command: 'C:\Users\mayank\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\mayank\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-1le2w4at\\fiona\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\mayank\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-1le2w4at\\fiona\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\mayank\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-e_ca92eu'
           cwd: C:\Users\mayank\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-1le2w4at\fiona\
      Complete output (1 lines):
      A GDAL API version must be specified. Provide a path to gdal-config using a GDAL_CONFIG environment variable or use a GDAL_VERSION environment variable.
      ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
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