diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/click-plugins/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/click-plugins/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ae8537c6c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/click-plugins/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi,
+  click, pytest
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "click-plugins";
+  version = "1.0.3";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1ifphgaw5mmcdnqd0qfnmrbm62q3k6p573aff4cxgpyjxmz5xk3s";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    click
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    pytest
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "An extension module for click to enable registering CLI commands";
+    homepage = https://github.com/click-contrib/click-plugins;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..91b289e2ede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub
+, click, pytest, glibcLocales
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "cligj";
+  version = "0.4.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mapbox";
+    repo = "cligj";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0fclxagxv23v75yiypb29a8sja23dakhvmx3blmxyhg2sci92sx8";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    click
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest glibcLocales ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 pytest tests
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON";
+    homepage = https://github.com/mapbox/cligj;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/descartes/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/descartes/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1407dd3d204
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/descartes/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi,
+  matplotlib, shapely
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "descartes";
+  version = "1.1.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0nq36w9ylvfwmwn5qd9c8fsp2jzsqpmy4xcr6pzxcpmg8qhm0nhk";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    matplotlib
+    shapely
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python library to use Shapely or GeoJSON objects as matplotlib paths";
+    homepage = https://bitbucket.org/sgillies/descartes/;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fiona/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fiona/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..42e8e423bdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fiona/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi,
+  six, cligj, munch, click-plugins, enum34, pytest, nose,
+  gdal
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "Fiona";
+  version = "1.7.9";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1fmdgpfnifaqfqwkfiwkpk19wmpi9avmh8a7jqylqi578jvp3fwi";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    gdal
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    six
+    cligj
+    munch
+    click-plugins
+    enum34
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    pytest
+    nose
+  ];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "OGR's neat, nimble, no-nonsense API for Python";
+    homepage = http://toblerity.org/fiona/;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/geopandas/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/geopandas/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8f54e0e429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/geopandas/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub
+, pandas, shapely, fiona, descartes, pyproj
+, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "geopandas-${version}";
+  version = "0.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "geopandas";
+    repo = "geopandas";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0maafafr7sjjmlg2f19bizg06c8a5z5igmbcgq6kgmi7rklx8xxz";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    py.test geopandas
+  '';
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    pandas
+    shapely
+    fiona
+    descartes
+    pyproj
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python geospatial data analysis framework";
+    homepage = https://geopandas.org;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/shapely/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/shapely/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8b8b06f9a2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/shapely/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi
+, geos, glibcLocales, pytest, cython, sharedLibraryExtension
+, numpy
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "Shapely";
+  version = "1.5.15";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0lfqxb3kpdn0g9zzlhzg79yc8iyy4fpsk0p5nd80gar1mmhr8pg7";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ geos glibcLocales cython ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8";
+  '';
+
+  patchPhase = let
+    libc = if stdenv.isDarwin then "libc.dylib" else "libc.so.6";
+  in ''
+    sed -i "s|_lgeos = load_dll('geos_c', fallbacks=.*)|_lgeos = load_dll('geos_c', fallbacks=['${geos}/lib/libgeos_c${sharedLibraryExtension}'])|" shapely/geos.py
+    sed -i "s|free = load_dll('c').free|free = load_dll('c', fallbacks=['${stdenv.cc.libc}/lib/${stdenv.cc.libc}']).free|" shapely/geos.py
+  '';
+
+  # tests/test_voctorized fails because the vectorized extension is not
+  # available in when running tests
+  checkPhase = ''
+    py.test --ignore tests/test_vectorized.py
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Geometric objects, predicates, and operations";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
+    homepage = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c1aa88b9808..9f200112560 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2926,6 +2926,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  click-plugins = callPackage ../development/python-modules/click-plugins {};
+
   click-threading = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "0.4.2";
     name = "click-threading-${version}";
@@ -2953,6 +2955,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  cligj = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cligj { };
+
   clepy = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "clepy-0.3.20";
 
@@ -8711,6 +8715,8 @@ in {
     };
   });
 
+  descartes = callPackage ../development/python-modules/descartes { };
+
   distutils_extra = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "distutils-extra-${version}";
     version = "2.39";
@@ -9602,6 +9608,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  fiona = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fiona { gdal = pkgs.gdal; };
+
   flake8 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/flake8 { };
 
   flake8-blind-except = callPackage ../development/python-modules/flake8-blind-except { };
@@ -10392,6 +10400,8 @@ in {
 
   };
 
+  geopandas = callPackage ../development/python-modules/geopandas { };
+
   gevent-websocket = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "gevent-websocket-0.9.3";
 
@@ -20986,40 +20996,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  shapely = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "Shapely-${version}";
-    version = "1.5.15";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/S/Shapely/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0lfqxb3kpdn0g9zzlhzg79yc8iyy4fpsk0p5nd80gar1mmhr8pg7";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.geos pkgs.glibcLocales pytest cython ];
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ numpy ];
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      export LANG="en_US.UTF-8";
-    '';
-
-    patchPhase = ''
-      sed -i "s|_lgeos = load_dll('geos_c', fallbacks=.*)|_lgeos = load_dll('geos_c', fallbacks=['${pkgs.geos}/lib/libgeos_c.so'])|" shapely/geos.py
-    '';
-
-    # tests/test_voctorized fails because the vectorized extension is not
-    # available in when running tests
-    checkPhase = ''
-      py.test --ignore tests/test_vectorized.py
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Geometric objects, predicates, and operations";
-      homepage = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/";
-    };
-  };
-
-
+  shapely = callPackage ../development/python-modules/shapely { };
 
   sopel = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "sopel-6.3.1";