[1] 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.

[2] In a second-hand Morris Minor car, Mackay took the drawn maps and drove around checking each road and detail to confirm them.

With continuing success, the company grew from Godfrey's private residence in Malvern,[2] to an office location in Mount Waverley in 1985.

There are currently three models of Navway: An Ausway app for Android and iPhone called Aus Map has been released.

Sensis owns Universal Publishers' UBD directories, rivals to Ausway's publications, and use that mapping data in their Whereis site.