{"id":7,"date":"2015-09-16T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:15:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Mark&#8217;s Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Mark Roberts, and I draw maps. Do you need a map?<\/p>\n<p>This website is where I put all my orphan maps which don&#8217;t fit in one of my books. All the maps are 2\/300dpi GIFs which you can see in their full glory by right clicking, or left click to get the PDF.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drop me a line &#8211; mark[at]markroberts[dot]id[dot]au<\/li>\n<li>Call me &#8211; +61 404 50 99 24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I draw maps for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/orienteering\/\">orienteering<\/a> competitions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/adventure-races\/\">adventure races<\/a><\/li>\n<li>orienteering maps for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/schools-orienteering\/\">schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li>maps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/mountain-biking\/\">where to ride your mountain bike<\/a><\/li>\n<li>maps of where to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/family-rides\/\">ride your bike with your family<\/a><\/li>\n<li>maps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/bushwalking\/\">bushwalking tracks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>maps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/birdwatching\/\">birdwatching venues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you need a map? I&#8217;ll draw one for you at a very reasonable price. I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, so I have good local knowledge and excellent cartographic resources for South East Queensland and northern New South Wales, but I&#8217;m happy to draw almost any area in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I primarily draw topographic-style maps but I&#8217;m interested in all types of map.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/ocad\/\">OCAD <\/a>to prepare my maps, and I also write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/category\/software\/\">software<\/a> to automate some mapping processes.<\/p>\n<p>My first book of maps is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organisedgrime.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Where to Mountain Bike in South East Queensland<\/a>; we published the Sixth Edition in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>My second book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyrides.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Rides in South East Queensland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My third map book is <a href=\"http:\/\/familybushwalks.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Bushwalks in South East Queensland<\/a> &#8211; the Second Edition came out in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>We developed the Somerset chapter of the MTB book into the <a href=\"http:\/\/bvrt.com.au\">Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Guide<\/a> which is now on its third edition.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/oBlog.html\">Orienteering Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Mark Roberts, and I draw maps. Do you need a map? This website is where I put all my orphan maps which don&#8217;t fit in one of my books. All the maps are 2\/300dpi GIFs which you can see in their full glory by right clicking, or left click to get the PDF. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Mark&#8217;s Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markroberts.id.au\/Wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}