The best way to find the location of a particular street of a city is to look up a map of the city. The map of a city does not only graphically represent the city as it is, but it also indicates the approximate distance between a prominent landmark of the city and another prominent landmark, or it gives you the distance between a landmark and the centre of the city. For example, a map of London does not only indicate the important roads of the British capital such as Piccadilly Circus and the likes, but it also gives you the location of such prominent landmarks of the city as Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, The Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, the River Thames, etc.

Maps are drawn to a scale. They graphically represent the diagram of a place in a two-dimensional format. The place, in reality, is three-dimensional in nature. Maps also give you the distance in miles or kilometres (the latter, however, is the preferred unit of measurement for distance in countries that were ruled by the United Kingdom, all of which still follow the metric system) between a prominent place, for example Heathrow Airport in London, and another part of the city, for example Piccadilly Circus.