It does require some effort. If Google decides to show a Directions button, you can get Maps and directions from a random location, but you can recover from tha

It does require some effort. If Google decides to show a Directions button, you can get Maps and directions from a random location, but you can recover from that. If it doesn’t, the only option is going to maps.google.com (or finding the Maps in the other services menu in the top right corner) and re-typing your query.