Installation

Installing GeoPandas

To install the released version, we recommend to use conda (from the conda-forge channel):

conda install -c conda-forge geopandas

Alternatively, you can also install GeoPandas with pip, but then you need to make sure that all dependencies are installed correctly:

pip install geopandas

You may install the latest development version by cloning the GitHub repository and using the setup script:

git clone https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas.git
cd geopandas
pip install .

It is also possible to install the latest development version directly from the GitHub repository with:

pip install git+git://github.com/geopandas/geopandas.git

Dependencies

Installation via conda should also install all dependencies, but a complete list is as follows:

• numpy
• pandas (version 0.15.2 or later)
• shapely
• fiona
• six
• pyproj

Further, optional dependencies are:

• geopy 0.99 (optional; for geocoding)
• psycopg2 (optional; for PostGIS connection)
• rtree (optional; spatial index to improve performance)

For plotting, these additional packages may be used:

• matplotlib
• descartes
• pysal

These can be installed independently via the following set of commands:

conda install -c conda-forge fiona shapely pyproj rtree
conda install pandas