John Cleverdon's Portfolio

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 maps (between the 2016 and 2021 censuses) for the Melbourne region and Sydney region
  
• 2018 state election results, ALP-Greens vote as a proportion of total votes (darker shade = higher proportion)
  
• There is a large amount of Vicmap data available online, an example of what can be done is a map of Mornington and a map of Dromana.
  
• 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.
  
• Graphics:
• Racecourse Maps (Mornington and Balnarring) from final year at RMIT uni, using CorelDraw
• House Plans, based on Year 12 graphics class, initially hand-drawn but later re-drafted in CorelDraw
  
• 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.
  
• Open Street Map: At work, I've done a web page with a referenced-in OpenStreetMap map with our projects shown and popups for them, using Leaflet Javascript. I've made a start on a map for Presbyterian Churches in the Sydney area and will add more as time permits.
  
• 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.
  The latest - driving from the Little River Gorge to McKillops Bridge - is from a GPX track recorded using Memory Map on a smartphone while on a holiday.
  
• Multimedia: A multimedia CD of Walhalla produced (as part of a group) while in final year at RMIT Uni.
• Digital Twin: I have started looking at what simple maps can be produced uploaded to the Digital Twin Victoria and the National Map. A basic example for the latter is a few places of astronomical interest in NSW, taken from the Quasar Publishing website.
  

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.
In 2025, I set up an OpenStreetMap account and have started making a number of additions and amendments on that, including using a smartphone GPS to pick up features.

John Cleverdon, 2013-2025

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