The following examples show off the functionality in GeoPandas. They highlight many of the things you can do with this package, and show off some best-practices.
Plotting with CartoPy and GeoPandas
Choro legends
Choropleth classification schemes from PySAL for use with GeoPandas
Creating a GeoDataFrame from a DataFrame with coordinates
Overlays
Clip Vector Data with GeoPandas
Adding a background map to plots
Plotting with folium
Plotting with Geoplot and GeoPandas
An example of polygon plotting with folium
Spatial Joins