When Whereis.com was launched in 1997, it was the first online mapping and navigation website in Australia. Today, Whereis.com receives approximately 4.2 million visits each month and almost 5.4million map searches each month.1
Why is Whereis.com so popular? Whereis.com makes planning your trip easy, with turn-by-turn directions, plus heaps of extra information to help you enjoy yourself once you get there. 2 Whether you want the shortcut, the scenic route or an amazingly detailed aerial digital 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 own country. Whereis.com draws on the vast databases of trusted local sources including the UBD® and Yellow Pages®, to bring you maps of over 1,100,000km of roads and hundreds of thousands of points of interest and businesses3 across Australia.
Get a bird’s eye view with 'Photo View'
Whereis.com 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 bird's eye view of the selected area. Whereis.com also has satellite imagery covering the entire country.
What can you find on Whereis.com?
Whereis.com features and functions include:
- a new search function that makes it easy to find locations, as well as points of interest and Yellow Pages® 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 detailed 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
- category buttons for easy display of the more popular POIs and business listings
- what about the ability to drag a route? This is new and not well known.
- also ‘right’ click to add directions start, end, via or mark a point on the road network
