Conflict in the versions of proj.db required by ras2fim and Geopandas

[ar-siddiqui]

Following the provided instructions (readme and wiki). The conda environment does not provide the right mix of libraries and their version for a successful run out of the box. There is a conflict in the versions of proj.db required by ras2fim and Geopandas.

Current behavior

Error:

2024-02-09 16:23:39 <CRITICAL> : Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ras2fim.py", line 730, in <module>
    init_and_run_ras2fim(**args)
  File "ras2fim.py", line 197, in init_and_run_ras2fim
    fn_run_ras2fim(
  File "ras2fim.py", line 323, in fn_run_ras2fim
    fn_cut_dems_from_shapes(
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\workbench\repos\ras2fim\src\clip_dem_from_shape.py", line 113, in fn_cut_dems_from_shapes
    gdf_boundary_raster_prj = gdf_boundary_prj.to_crs(str_raster_prj)
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\ras2fim\lib\site-packages\geopandas\geodataframe.py", line 1364, in to_crs
    geom = df.geometry.to_crs(crs=crs, epsg=epsg)
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\ras2fim\lib\site-packages\geopandas\geoseries.py", line 1124, in to_crs
    self.values.to_crs(crs=crs, epsg=epsg), index=self.index, name=self.name
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\ras2fim\lib\site-packages\geopandas\array.py", line 777, in to_crs
    transformer = Transformer.from_crs(self.crs, crs, always_xy=True)
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\ras2fim\lib\site-packages\pyproj\transformer.py", line 600, in from_crs
    return Transformer(
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\ras2fim\lib\site-packages\pyproj\transformer.py", line 326, in __init__
    self._local.transformer = transformer_maker()
  File "D:\Users\abdul.siddiqui\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\ras2fim\lib\site-packages\pyproj\transformer.py", line 102, in __call__
    return _Transformer.from_crs(
  File "pyproj\_transformer.pyx", line 530, in pyproj._transformer._Transformer.from_crs
  File "pyproj\_transformer.pyx", line 309, in pyproj._transformer.proj_create_crs_to_crs
pyproj.exceptions.ProjError: Error creating Transformer from CRS.

Expected behavior

No error.

Steps to replicate behavior (include URLs)

Follow the provided instructions and run the sample model on a new machine.

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