gistfile1.py

from descartes import PolygonPatch
from functools import reduce
import json
import urllib

data = urllib.urlopen("https://raw.github.com/gist/3634233/4de4c6de1cd0edbea410cc32bfcc7cbe90a78b44/tlv.json").read()
f = json.loads(data)

g = f.copy()
g['geometry']['coordinates'] = [f['geometry']['coordinates']]

# Code below renders the polygon with pylab in IPython's notebook 
BLUE = '#6699cc'

def draw(axes, item):
    """Given matplotlib axes and a geometric item, adds the item as a patch
    and returns the axes so that reduce() can accumulate more patches."""
    axes.add_patch(
        PolygonPatch(item, fc=BLUE, ec=BLUE, alpha=0.5, zorder=2))
    axes.autoscale(tight=False)
    return axes

figsize(8, 8)
reduce(draw, [g['geometry']], gca())