| Type | Subsidiary of Sensis Media |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Website | http://www.universalpublishers.com.au/ |
Universal Publishers produce the ubiquitous UBD and Gregory's street directories in Australia. The names of these publications have come to be used as a generic term for street directories in many Australian cities.
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Universal publishes street directories, guides, maps and road atlases and is Australia's largest mapping and travel related products publishers. The company distributes travel and cartographic ranges for Berlitz, GeoCenter, Insight Guides, Michelin and Replogle.
A variety of former Gregory's products are now UBD products (such as the Darwin street directory and Brisbane/Sydney compact street directories). These products retain the Gregory's format, but now have UBD branding.
While primarily street directories, UBD and Gregory's also contain details on public transport (train and light rail, tickets and prices), bicycle paths, suburb and postcode details, public parks and reserves, landmarks (such as commercial buildings, telephone boxes, pubs and restaurants), attractions, and also boat mooring details in recognised docks. They also contain maps of university campuses and crematoria. The UBD Compact street directories also contain a 'Cityside guide' with tourist information.
The rendering of roads in most city and town maps uses the traditional drawing of two lines with the road name printed in-between, (known as 'double casing'). In the UBD Melbourne directory [1] maps show a single line with the name above or below the road to make it more appealing to people familiar with the Melway street directory. This mapping style is also used for road atlas maps and main road maps.