GeoPandas, as discussed in Chapter 5, Vector Data Analysis, is the geospatial compliment to Pandas. To be able to create dataframes objects from shapefiles, we have to make sure that GeoPandas is installed and added to the virtual environment. Use pip install to add the GeoPandas library:
(cartoenv) C:\PythonGeospatial3>pip install geopandas
If there are installation issues on Windows, pre-built binaries for GeoPandas and Fiona (which powers GeoPandas) are available here, along with many other Python libraries: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs. Install Fiona and GeoPandas from the wheels by downloading them, copying them into a folder, and using pip install to install from the wheel. For example, here, Fiona ...
