I've looked into the samples and recall what the problem was: geopandas was in an experimental branch, and you had to lock yourself into dask -- plus, the geopandas code had to be rewritten completely for dask. So i wrote my own processor that applies the same function in map&reduce fashion, and keeps code compatible with jupyter notebooks -- you decorate functions to be parallelizeable, but still import them and call normally. https://github.com/culebron/erde