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+Introduction
+------------
+
+GeoPandas is a project to add support for geographic to [pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org) objects.  It currently implements a `GeoSeries` type which is a subclass of `pandas.Series`.
+GeoPandas objects can act on [shapely](http://toblerity.github.io/shapely) geometry objects and perform geometric operations.
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+    >>> p1 = Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1)])
+    >>> p2 = Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)])
+    >>> p3 = Polygon([(2, 0), (3, 0), (3, 1), (2, 1)])
+    >>> g = GeoSeries([p1, p2, p3])
+    >>> g
+    0    POLYGON ((0.0000000000000000 0.000000000000000...
+    1    POLYGON ((0.0000000000000000 0.000000000000000...
+    2    POLYGON ((2.0000000000000000 0.000000000000000...
+    dtype: object
+
+Some geographic operations return normal pandas object.  Calling the `area()` method of a `GeoSeries` will generate a `pandas.Series` containing the area of each item in the `GeoSeries`:
+
+    >>> print g.area
+    0    0.5
+    1    1.0
+    2    1.0
+    dtype: float64
+
+Other operations return GeoPandas objects:
+
+    >>> g.buffer(0.5)
+    Out[15]:
+    0    POLYGON ((-0.3535533905932737 0.35355339059327...
+    1    POLYGON ((-0.5000000000000000 0.00000000000000...
+    2    POLYGON ((1.5000000000000000 0.000000000000000...
+    dtype: object
+
+GeoPandas objects also know how to plot themselves.  GeoPandas uses [descartes](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/descartes) to generate a [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org) plot. To generate a plot of our GeoSeries, use:
+
+    >>> g.plot()
+
+GeoPandas also implements an alternate constructor that can read any data format recognized by [fiona](http://toblerity.github.io/fiona).  To read a [file containing the boroghs of New York City](http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/download/bytes/nybb_13a.zip):
+
+    >>> boros = GeoSeries.from_file('nybb.shp')
+    >>> boros.area.astype(int)
+    0    1623855479
+    1    3049948268
+    2    1959433450
+    3     636441882
+    4    1186805996
+    dtype: int64
+
+TODO
+----
+
+- Not all Shapely operations are yet exposed to a GeoSeries
+- Implement a GeoDataFrame and GeoPanel
+- spatial joins and more...