SUMO: error: typemap file "/usr/share/sumo/data/typemap/osmPolyconvert.typ.xml" not found

When you are learning SUMO using Tutorials/OSMWebWizard (http://sumo.sourceforge.net/userdoc/Tutorials/OSMWebWizard.html).

You followed instructions from the tutorial and went into the directory /usr/share/sumo/tools.

After you clicked "Generate Scenario" and you waited for a long time. Then you checked your terminal you found an error:

osmWebWizard.py: error: typemap file "/usr/share/sumo/data/typemap/osmPolyconvert.typ.xml" not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "osmWebWizard.py", line 379, in build
    builder.build()
  File "osmWebWizard.py", line 187, in build
    osmBuild.build(options)
  File "/usr/share/sumo/tools/osmBuild.py", line 68, in build
    optParser.error('typemap file "%s" not found' % options.typemap)
  File "/home/tan/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1569, in error
    self.exit(2, "%s: error: %s\n" % (self.get_prog_name(), msg))
  File "/home/tan/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1559, in exit
    sys.exit(status)

I didn't find a good solution to this problem. The official community website didn't answer this question very well (https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=[e-mail]&q=subject:%22Bug%23899345%5C%3A+sumo%5C%3A+Should+include+data+directory+in+package%22&o=newest&f=1)

Solution:

All you need to do is just go to SUMO github website and download their all files and copy 'data' directory into /user/share/sumo.