6.1Places to stay on the map

Each kind of place has its own switch. Turn on the ones you want to see. Turn off the ones you don't.

1. Tap Menu at the top left of the screen.
2. Tap Layers along the top of the Menu.
3. Find the heading Camping.
4. Tap a switch to turn that kind of place on or off.
5. Tap Map at the top left to close the Menu.

Two more switches sit under Services. Shelters & Huts shows simple shelters and huts. Dump Stations is on from the start.

OpenStreetMap is a free world map that people everywhere keep up to date. Some layers load from it as you go.

Step by step, with pictures: Find a place to stop for the night · Book your bed straight with the owner

6.2Find a place and open its card

Zoomed out, places close together join into a soft circle with a number on it. The number is how many places are there.

1. Move the map to where you'd like to stop.
2. Tap a circle, or zoom in, until single pins show.
3. Tap a pin. Its card opens.

A green ring marks the place whose card is open. Its name shows beside it, so you know which pin you're reading about.

Some places have no name on the map. The card then calls it by its kind, then adds the nearest town, like "Campsite near" and the town.

6.3The campsite card, part by part

Tap a campsite pin and its card opens. Here is every part, from top to bottom. A part only shows when we have something for it.

Step by step, with pictures: Find a place to stop for the night

6.4Access difficulty: how rough the road in is

Access difficulty tells you how rough the road into a place is. The app reads the road closest to the site on the map.

Under a graded road you'll see a row of chips: Caravan / motorhome, Car, SUV/Van, Truck/4x4, Moto and Bicycle. Each says OK, Care or No. The chip for your own vehicle has a ring round it.

6.5Book direct, Visit website and Call

Where a place has its own website, its card shows a big button for it. It's the first button under the name, with the website's address beside it.

• Book direct shows on somewhere you can book: a caravan park, a hotel, motel, guesthouse, hostel or cabin. It also shows on a campsite or hut that takes bookings.
• Visit website shows on other places with their own website.
• Call shows when the map has a phone number. The number is on the button.

1. Tap a pin to open its card.
2. Tap Book direct, or Visit website, to open the place's own website.
3. Or tap Call to ring the place from your phone.

Booking straight with the owner means they keep more of what you pay.

Step by step, with pictures: Book your bed straight with the owner

6.6Booking.com and Compare prices

Cards from Hotels & Motels, Guesthouses & B&Bs, Hostels & Backpackers and Cabins & Apartments have two more links. They sit in the row of small links at the bottom.

Other small links you may see in that row:

• Save keeps the place in your Saved Spots.
• Maps opens the place in Google Maps.
• Facebook shows when the place has no website but has a Facebook page.
• Reviews, on a campsite, searches the web for reviews.

6.7Cards for hotels, huts and rest areas

Hotels, hostels, cabins, huts and the Campsites layer open a shorter card. Here is what it can show.

A pin from the Campsites layer has more rows. They are Fee, Access, Booking and Capacity. Badges show what it has. Tents, Caravans and Motorhome say who may stay. A short line can say Campfires OK, No campfires or Wheelchair accessible.

Campsite pins also have the camper sections from the main card. These are dog rules, reviews, current conditions and Report a problem with this place.

A pin from Rest Areas says what it is. It can be Roadside Rest Area, Free Camping Area, Dump Station, Picnic Area or Overnight Car Park. It can show the Fee and Max stay. Badges show Toilets, Water, Dump, Tables, Shelter and BBQ.

A rest area for self-contained vehicles says Requirement: Self-contained only. It also shows a Cell Coverage (est.) box, a Source line and a Source link.

6.8Filter campsites

The filter chips help you find the sites with what you need. Sites that don't match fade. The rest stay bright.

1. Tap Menu.
2. Tap Layers.
3. Scroll to Filter Campsites at the bottom.
4. Tap a chip. It turns green.
5. Tap Map to close the Menu and look.

Tap more than one chip and a site must match them all to stay bright.

A site the map has no word on fades too. Unknown isn't a yes.

The chips work on National & State Parks, Caravan Parks, Free Camping and Self-Contained. Other layers stay at full strength.

Step by step, with pictures: Find a place to stop for the night · Find campsites that take your dog

6.9Dogs OK and the dog row

Every campsite card has a dog row near the top. It answers one question: can the dog come?

Dog rules come from three places. One is the park's own rule. One is the campground's website. One is the map.

A small line under the rule tells you when to double check. It may say "read from the campground website" or "general rule, confirm with the campground".

To see only sites that take dogs, turn on the Dogs OK chip.

1. Tap Menu.
2. Tap Layers.
3. Scroll to Filter Campsites.
4. Tap Dogs OK, the chip with a dog on it.

Sites that take dogs stay bright. The rest fade, and so do sites with no dog rule.

Step by step, with pictures: Find campsites that take your dog

6.10What other campers say

Under the details, three sections share what other campers found. You need to be signed in to add to them.

Dog rules from campers

1. Tap Dogs allowed, On leash only or No dogs.
2. Under How do you know?, tap how you know.
3. The choices are Saw a sign, Staff told me, Stayed with a dog, Saw dogs there and Other.
4. Add a note if you like.
5. Tap Post report.

Reviews from campers

1. Tap a star, from one to five, under Rate it and tell the next camper.
2. Type a few words if you like. The box says What should the next camper know? (optional)
3. Tap Post review.

An average shows once three campers have rated a site. Before that, you see each review on its own. To change yours, tap Change. To take it away, tap the bin beside it.

Current conditions from campers

1. Tap Report current conditions.
2. Tap what you found.
3. The choices are Open & fine, Closed / locked, Full, Access difficult and Flooded.
4. Or tap Facilities out or Fees changed.
5. Or tap No longer exists or Something else.
6. Add a few words. Something else needs them.
7. Tap Post report.

Each report shows how old it is. Reports over about four months old fold into History. The app never decides a site is closed from reports. It shows what campers said, so you can judge.

Report a problem with this place

Tap this link when the card itself is wrong. Pick what's wrong, like Wrong name, Pin is in the wrong place or Fee is wrong. Add a note and tap Send. It comes to us, and no other camper sees it.

Step by step, with pictures: Find campsites that take your dog · Put a missing place on the map

6.11Stay here overnight from a card

Every card has buttons to plan a route there. They change with the route you already have.

Stay here overnight plans a route to the place and marks it as where you'll sleep. The mark is a small moon.

1. Open the card of the place where you'd like to stop for the night.
2. Tap Stay here overnight.
3. With no route yet, the app plans one from where you are now.
4. With a route already, the place becomes your next stop. Your old end stays on the route as a stop.

On the map, a night stop shows as a bed. Your trip plan counts it as a night.

6.12Saved Spots

Saved Spots keeps any place you like: a campsite, a friend's house, or a spot with no name. Each one shows as a pink heart on your map.

To save a place from its card:

1. Tap the pin to open its card.
2. Tap Save, under the name or in the small links.
3. Type a name, or keep the one offered.
4. Tap OK. A message says Spot saved.

To save any spot on the map:

1. Press and hold the spot with one finger until a menu opens. On a computer, right-click.
2. Tap Save to Saved Spots.
3. The box asks What would you like to call this spot? Type a name.
4. Tap OK.

To see your list, tap Menu, then Route. Saved Spots is near the bottom, under Home Base.

Tap a pink heart on the map to open its card. It has the route buttons, Rename and Remove.

Start typing a saved spot's name in a route box. It shows in the list with a heart.

If nothing is saved yet, the list says: Nothing saved yet. Press and hold anywhere on the map, or tap Save on a place, to add any spot you like.

Step by step, with pictures: Put a missing place on the map

6.13Iconic Food Stops

Iconic Food Stops is 36 places we picked by hand. They run from a pie shop on the Old Pacific Highway to the pink roadhouse at Oodnadatta. Each is a simple place, known far beyond its own town, on a good road.

1. Tap Menu.
2. Tap Layers.
3. Scroll to the heading Worth a Stop.
4. Tap the switch for Iconic Food Stops.
5. Tap Map to close the Menu.

Each stop is a purple pin with a little burger. All 36 show at every zoom, and they never join into circles.

Step by step, with pictures: Find great food stops on your way

6.14Worth a Stop

The other switches under Worth a Stop show things worth seeing on the way. They're all off at the start.

Tap a pin for its card. It shows the name and kind, and can show the Elevation in metres, Hours and a few words. The buttons are route buttons, Maps, Website and Wikipedia.

Plan a route and the Route Summary may say Cool stuff along this route. It lists what you'll pass. Tap Show on map to see those places.

Alert in navigation is the last switch under Worth a Stop. It's on at the start. While you navigate, it gives you a heads up in time to stop.

• Some kinds can alert even when their switch is off. These are Viewpoints, Waterfalls, Hot Springs, Natural Wonders and Ghost Towns.
• Other kinds alert only when their switch is on. These are Caves, Lookout Towers, Historic Sites and Attractions.
• Only well known places alert: ones with a name, and a Wikipedia page or a written note.