Current features (all free of charge)
For Everyone (no registration required)
- Use the most sophisticated and interactive map of Australia:
- Display the location of Places, Attractions, Events, Jobs, Accommodation on the map
- Zoom down to street level
- Drag a rectange on the map to easily zoom in
- Tick categories to display only what you are interested in
- Click on the icons to see detailed information including photos, facilities, ratings and comments
- Use the fast keyword search
- Use the distance tool to display the distance between any two points in Australia
- On street level, display icons and names of shopping centres, police stations, train stations, museums
- Display gps data on the cursor
- View Travel Blogs:
Follow the experiences of current and future travellers..
- View travel routes
- Read travellers diary entries and comments from friends and family
- View photos and read their descriptions
- Search for Travel Blogs by most photos, most diary entries, most recent, alias of the traveller etc.
- Find out about general information in "About Australia"
- Facts & Statistics
- Climate
- History
- Sports
- Nature & Wildlife
- Myths & Fun Stuff
- Things To Do
- Economy & Government
- Culture & Slang
- Find out about important things for travellers in "Essentials":
- Insurance
- Health Care
- Transport
- Work & Study
- Visa
- Banking
- Internet
- Phones
- Read what travellers have to say in the Forum: Traveltips, Funny Travel Stories etc
For Registered Travellers
- Trip Planner: Draw your travel route
- Easy drag and drop from the map
- Add existing map points or create your own
- The travel route, direction and distance travelled is displayed automatically
- Security, your current and future locations are only displayed to your friends
- While travelling, use 1c SMS messages to enter new locations in your trip planner
- Photo Album, add as many photos as you like
- Add descriptions to individual photos
- Complete security & privacy, you decide who can view which photos
- Diary Entries, add as many diary entries as you like
- Unlimited Formatted Text
- Associate photos from your photo album with your diary entries
- Allow or disallow comments from other travellers, friends and family
- Use 1c SMS messages to send a new diary entry while enjoying the sun at the beach, no need for access to a computer with internet!
- Complete security and privacy, you decide who can view which diary entries
- Stay in touch with your Friends & Family
- Invite as many friends as you like
- Friends have special access to your travel blog (trip planner, photo album, diary entries)
- All friends receive an automatic email notification whenever there are news from you (even when you send a single sms update to bepacked.com
- Get your personalised Widget
A little widget that you can use on your website, MySpace or LiveJournal. It displays your current location in Autralia as well as the local time.
- Favourites
You may want to easily remember or go back to locations you find while browsing the map. Add information to your Favourites with a simple click of a button. Your favourites are saved even after you log out.
- Rating & Comments
Rate the places, attractions, accommodation which show on the map. Add your comments.
Add comments to other travellers diary entries.
For Registered Friends & Family
- View restricted information in your friends' Travel Blogs
- Add comments to your friends Diary Entries
- Receive automatic update notifications and direct links when your friends add new diary entries
For Registered Content Providers
- Add your place, attraction, accommodation etc to the bepacked.com Australia map. No matter how small or how remote - promote what Australia has to offer.
- Advertise job vacancies. Full time, part time, casual and even private jobs.
- Simply drop a pin on the map and start adding descriptions, photos, contact details etc
- Add indivdual descriptions to each photo
- Add events with photos, descriptions etc. You can easily add recurring events (eg market every first Saturday per month)
- Share your information with others. Public information such as places and public attractions can be edited by many Content Providers. Add photos or enhance the descriptions of a record that someone else started.
- You can update your records at any time, 24x7x365
- A 24 hour approval system means that your information is displayed on a website aiming for quality of information.