On the web

When Whereis.com was launched in 1997, it was the first online mapping and navigation website in Australia. Today, Whereis.com receives more than 4.7 million visits each month and serves up a staggering 67.3 million maps1, every month as well.

Why is Whereis.com so popular? Whereis.com makes planning your trip really easy, with turn-by-turn directions to almost any destination in Australia, plus heaps of extra information to help you enjoy yourself once you get there. Whether you want the shortcut, the scenic route, or an amazingly detailed photo view of your destination, Whereis.com gives you the tools to take control of how you get around.

We know Australia like the back of our hand

We know our country like true locals because that's exactly what we are. Whereis.com draws on the vast databases of trusted local sources including the UBD® and Yellow™ directories, to bring you maps of over 1,000,000km of roads and literally hundreds of thousands of points of interest and businesses2 across Australia. Read more about why Whereis® maps are spot on.

Get a bird’s eye view with 'Photo View'

Whereis.com now has aerial photography of all Australian capital cities, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, Port Douglas and Cairns. These high-quality images allow you to zoom in on locations in such fine detail that you'll always know what to expect when planning your day-to-day activities, because 15cm in real life represents one pixel on screen. So if you're planning a barbecue in a park you can now easily locate the playgrounds and find out if there is shade nearby.

All you need to do is click on the 'Photo View' button when you 'Get a Map' to turn it into a fascinating bird's eye view of the selected area.

Whereis.com also has satellite imagery covering the entire country.

What's new on Whereis.com?

Look out for new and improved Whereis.com features and functions available on the site from April 2008. They include:

  • a new search function that makes it easy to find locations, as well as points of interest and Yellow™ business listings
  • a new map that is designed for reading on your screen and is easy to print
  • bigger maps that stretch the full width of the screen and automatically resize as you resize your browser window
  • multi-stop trip planning that lets you plan a more complicated set of directions (including up to five stops), and look at your route in map or photo view
  • new map controls that make it faster and easier to move the map around
  • smoother, faster map transitions and interactions
  • an auto-save feature that saves your recent searches for quick reference
  • a convenient side panel you can open and close onto the map so you can get information about what's on the map while you're looking at it

We're mad about maps

We have been told that when people think of Whereis.com, they think of "... a bunch of crazy guys sitting in a garage making maps." While we may be a little crazy, this isn't quite the case.

Whereis.com is made up of a dedicated and expert team of designers, testers, developers, writers, producers, interaction specialists and, of course, map geeks to bring you Australia's best navigation and destination website.

Keeping our maps up to date

The Whereis® map database is constantly being refreshed to ensure our map data reflects the Australian road network as closely as possible. This program consists of customer-reported map errors, new road developments, and the results from our own 15,000 hours spent driving over 320,000km of road to analyse changes.

These updates occur automatically every six weeks, with one major national update every 12 months. 3

Find out more about how to report a map error.

1 Whereis® Omniture Data October 2007
2 Only Yellow™ business listings with a map reference (i.e. have longitude and latitude reference) will be shown on the map. New Yellow™ listings are regularly added to Whereis.com. It is a free service.
3 Every effort is made to (a) ensure our maps reflect the changes in the road network and (b) to address map errors in the regular map update program. However, at any point in time Whereis® cannot guarantee that (a) our digital maps are a 100% reflection of the Australian road network, or (b) that we will be able to address map error requests within consecutive map update releases.

Try this...

Get directions from a place you've already found

If you've got directions and you want to add a stop on the way, click 'via here' to add the stop and watch the engine re-calculate the route.

Marquee zoom

Hold the 'SHIFT' key down, click anywhere on the map and move your mouse. When you have selected an area, release the mouse and see what happens.

Hiding the labels on photo view

When you select 'photo view' we add street labels to the maps to help you work out what you are looking for. To turn off the labels for a 'photo view', click 'hide street labels'.