Finding your way to and from a station with Google maps

Problem
How do you find your way to and from a Station?

Answer
Use Google maps. This map might already be installed in your phone. If not, search for it and install it by clicking on the symbols which say install. When I installed it, I found it was free.

On my mobile screen the apps are shown on a grid which is arranged alphabetically. You might have a choice of ways of displaying the icons or symbols.

At the top of your screen you should find a search box in which you type your destination such as City Central station or Abc Business Building. Up pops a map of your local area.

Click on the picture of a figure walking. Then you get walking directions instead of driving directions.

Click on the black or blue symbol lower right and you will see a blue line of dots between your current location and the destination. This shows you where to walk.

You don't have to following w the route exactly. You might decide to take a footpath to the station to save time instead of the longer route along the main road.  Or at night when going home you might take the longer route along the main road instead of a path with puddles and shadows and mosquitos.

The map has many other good features such as telling you how many minutes away you are from a building such as a station, shopping malls or restaurant.

I wish I had learned to use Googlemaps earlier. I am very grateful to the friend who showed me how to use it on two occasions.

If none of this is new to you, take the information as a reminder of how to coach somebody else how to use the helping ap, - step by step - figuratively and literally. Anybody who is puzzling over a map or asking directions  might be glad of a first lesson or reinforcing reminder.

Please show it to someone who is lost and would love to receive help, not just once but on many journeys.

Like teaching a person how to fish, teaching them how to use an ap can be a lesson which improves not just one day and one journey but many quicker, easier travels.

Author
Angela Lansbury,  travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.