This is a package that includes an ipython notebook and dependent images describing the features of the shapely 2-D spatial data package written for python.
There are several dependencies to get this notebook to run properly:
Shapely
For more information about shapely: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely
to install: pip install shapely
Fiona
For more information on fiona, see here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Fiona
to install: pip install fiona
GDAL
"The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library": http://www.gdal.org/
to install on osx: brew install gdal to install on linux: sudo apt-get install gdal-bin
matplotlib
to install: follow directions here: http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html
pysal
to install: follow instructions here: http://www.pysal.org/users/installation.html