Better use of geopandas in MapReader

[rwood-97]

Summary

At the moment MapReader doesn't make full use of geopandas. This PR addresses this and brings in geopandas wherever possible into the MapReader pipeline.

Fixes #436
Fixes #467

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Attention: Patch coverage is 91.28788% with 92 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

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[rwood-97]

@kallewesterling how do you feel if merge this? I feel pretty sure it won't break anything (and we can always revert to previous version if there is an issue) and will be helpful for the Oct workshop with visualising text outputs.