up and running geopandas on windows machine

Production OS being windows makes it counter intuitive to install python packages with c bindings. Hopefully, following links will keep you from having a nerve wrecking experience to play with geopandas.

Geoff Boeing explains every minute detail on getting the python wheels (http://geoffboeing.com/2014/09/using-geopandas-windows/). And final moving of dll into a different folder(for windows PATH to recognize the package) is explained here https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/198289/does-gohlke-gdal-break-command-line-gdal-ogr-in-windoiws…

Hope this helped you…