Аусуэй: Австралиялық картаграфия және баспа компаниясы

Australian cartography and publishing company

Ausway is an Australian cartography and publishing company that produces comprehensive street directories and maps. In addition to its directories, Ausway also produces laminated, folded and rolled maps of varying sizes and formats, 200dpi digital map images, and index data. Ausway markets a satellite navigation unit loaded with their mapping data, branded as Navway.

Seeking a higher quality street directory for Melbourne, Merv Godfrey and Iven Mackay began drawing maps by hand for their proposed directory in 1961. Having produced road maps for petrol stations in the 1960s in his spare time, Godfrey took 12 months leave from his employer, the Government of Victoria's State Electricity Commission, to work on the directory. Godfrey resigned from his job, and worked with his wife to complete the publication. In a second hand Morris Minor car, Mackay took the drawn maps and drove around checking each road and detail to confirm them. and expanded into Sydney in 1993 with the launch of the Sydway directory, into Brisbane in 2005 with the Brisway, and into Perth in 2010 with the Melway Perth.

The eway is an electronic copy of the Melway, Brisway, Sydway and Melway Perth street directories. It includes the ability to print out maps, calculate distances and quickly search for locations. It is only available for Microsoft Windows, and is currently being updated in sync with the printed books.

An Ausway app for Android and iPhone called Aus Map has been released. This app requires an internet connection since it downloads the map data as needed from www. street directory. com. au. Melway, Sydway, Brisway and Melway Perth are all included along with other map scales from street directory. com. Aus Map includes the ability to act as a GPS with onscreen direction instructions. At present (2013) the direction instructions are limited to onscreen only. No voice audio support.

Ausway's directory products are searchable online through Melbourne based Virtual Map Australia's street directory. com. au site. The advertisement supported site is in competition to Whereis, a site by Sensis, the advertising and directories arm of Telstra Corporation. Sensis owns Universal Publishers' UBD directories, rivals to Ausway's publications, and use that mapping data in their Whereis site.