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My background is cartography (I have a degree from RMIT University) and I work as a survey - senior draftsman at Marshal Melbourne, a land surveying, civil engineering design and town planning company specialising in greenfield subdivision.
Projects for which I've been one of those at work doing the drafting include:

• Mornington Peninsula: Martha Cove (Safety Beach), Spindrift (Tyabb), Moonah Links (Fingal), St. Mitchells Circuit (Mornington), Bentley Cove & Mayfair (Mount Martha), National Golf Club (Cape Schanck) and Dromana & Rosebud Industrial Estates expansion
  
• Southeast: Waterways (Waterways), Crystal Waters, College Green, The Keys & Oakwood (Keysborough), King & Queen (Dandenong), Marriott Waters & The Rise (Lyndhurst), Berwick Springs, Kimberley Downs & Cypress Hills & Water Edge (Narre Warren South), Eve, Arbourlea & Tulliallan (Cranbourne North), Ambrosia, Alarah & Phoenix (Cranbourne West), E>st & The Avenues (Cranbourne East), Brompton (Cranbourne South), Edgebrook & Pavilion (Clyde), Berwick Waters (Clyde North), Beaumont Waters, Minta Farm & St. John's Wood (Berwick) and Falling Water & Galway Gold (Pakenham)
  
• North: Hawkstowe (South Morang), The Woods & Annadale (Mickleham), Trillium (Craigieburn), Promenade (Doreen), Summerhill (Wollert), Lyndarum (Epping) and Platform & Balmain (Donnybrook)
• West: Botanica Springs (Brookfield / Melton), Exford Waters (Weir Views/Melton), Diamond Rise (Cobblebank/Melton) and Taylor's Run (Fraser Rise)
• Southwest: Wyndham Harbour (Werribee South), Jubilee (Wyndham Vale), Saratoga (Point Cook) and Habitat & Hogan's Cove (Tarneit)
• Regional: Highton Ridge (Highton/Geelong), Surf View (Torquay), Spring Ridge (Wallan), Summerhill (Drouin), Ullathorne Park (Inverloch), Brookfield Lakes (Lucknow/Bairnsdale) & Ah Yee (Paynesville)

I live on the Mornington Peninsula and work from home most of the time.

Professionally, I'm a member of the Geospatial Council of Australia.

Portfolio
Since late 2013, I have been expanding my spatial skills at home as well as at work, and examples of this are as follows:

• Cartography/GIS: Using Vicmap and Geoscience Australia data as the base and MapInfo software, I've created the following maps:
• Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society - Member location map
• Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society - Viewing Nights map. 
• Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society - Cranbourne Meteorites map.
• Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society - Site Plan for the Briars Astronomy Centre (using Microstation software).
  
• Light Railway Research Society of Australia - Yarra Junction - Powelltown area map , showing what is available with Vicmap data.
• ABS 2016 Census: Religion data for Melbourne - thematic maps and charts.
  
• Presbyterian Church of Victoria: Church Planting Committee - a series of maps around Melbourne using 2016 Census data to assist with church planting.
• Generic copies of the above Church Planting Maps, available for use by other denominations.
• Victorian Election 2018 (Lower House) results (using Microstation software).
• ABS 2016 Census: Age data for the Mornington Peninsula.
• ABS Censuses: Population change in the Melbourne region between the 2016 and 2021 Censuses.
  
• Victorian coronavirus cases per capita from August - perhaps a fortnight or more before the DHHS had a similar map online!
• Why the Mornington Peninsula should not be part of metropolitan Melbourne for coronavirus restrictions.
• Although not a map, this chart (per capita statistics) shows just how badly the "Tyrant Andrews" regime stuffed things up with coronavirus here in Danistan (ie. Victoria)
• 2018 state election results, ALP-Greens vote as a proportion of total votes (darker shade = higher proportion)
  
• Coronavirus exposure sites from early June (darker shade = larger number of sites)
• There is a large amount of Vicmap data available online, an example of what can be done is a map of Mornington.
  
• GPS: Using a Magellan handheld GPS on loan (originally a Triton and more recently an Explorist):
• I've picked up features such as walking tracks that aren't yet on Melway or Vicmap. Using GIS software, I've converted the GPX files to MapInfo format, then in MapInfo overlaid these on Vicmap data. The resulting data is then sent off to Melway and Vicmap as needed. See as examples a screen dump for Woods Reserve (near Devilbend Reservoir, Mornington Peninsula) and a screen dump for Buckley NCR (Balnarring, Mornington Peninsula).
• Picked up plaques around Dromana for the Dromana and District Historical Society.
• More recently, I now have a kit-build GPS to use as well.
  
• KML: I've created Google Earth KML/KMZ files for a variety of subjects using CAD/GIS software, view this list and more recently the 'Round 2' work.
• Google Maps API: I've done some 'playing around' to create a basic map for the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society, another for the Dromana & District Historical Society and a third for the Gateway 4WD group.
  
• Animated 3D Maps: Maps of the Puffing Billy Railway and 4WD - Talbotville to The Pinnacles via Billy Goat Bluff Track, created using Memory Map software (in it's 3D ability). Normally, you can do this with a GPX file from a handheld GPS device, etc; but these involved GPX tracks created using commercial or freeware/open-source CAD and GIS software.
  
• Multimedia: A multimedia CD of Walhalla produced (as part of a group) while in final year at RMIT Uni.
  

I have also provided feedback to Melway since around 1996 and Vicmap (Spatial Vision Map Books and Vicmap maps/digital data) since 2006 by 'unofficial' field-checking of the maps, and am now using a handheld GPS to assist in this, combined with GIS.

Hobbies and Other
My main hobbies are astronomy and railways.

• Astronomy: I'm a member of the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society
• Railways: I'm a member of the Rail Futures Institute (a Victorian rail transport think-tank).

I'm a member of the Dromana Presbyterian Church.
I'm also a member of the Dromana & District Historical Society.

Photos from past holidays, daytrips, etc: Flickr albums.

Other smaller web pages of mine:
Spatial Sciences - mapping links
4WD Links (including maps)
Links to Christian groups
The End of Democracy in the West
How the Dystopia Novels are becoming reality
Bible Maps and Atlases

Web pages of mine that are no longer maintained are as follows:

• Astronomy: Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society
• Railways: The Locomotive Page, The Locomotive page (original) , Railway photos and Railway Map of Victoria
• 4WD'ing: Gateway 4WD

I do gardening and some cooking in my spare time.
Other interests are science & technology, aviation, civil engineering, military & intelligence (espionage), geography / geopolitics / politics, history and counter-factual history.
I'm a 4th-generation Australian (all my ancestors were free settlers) from a British background.

I'm also on LinkedIn for those of you who know me and are already on there.

I've always been single because I'm yet to meet a single nice Christian lady around my age. Indeed, so many women are self-centred and / or misandrists these days that I'm yet to be convinced that such people even exist.
I will bet $1 billion that I will never be able to get on a date, let alone find a girlfriend, let alone get married, because there are no single nice Christian ladies (not previously married and not already having kids) around my age out there.

John Cleverdon

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