The Toronto Traveler

Photo Credit: The Official City of Toronto Website

If you aren’t at a computer terminal where you can access The Toronto Traveler, then there are actually places on the streets where you can do in order to get your fix of tourism and travel within the City of Toronto.  These handy little terminals are known as InfoToGo terminals and they have been placed at key areas around the city specifically for use by people that are either lost and trying to find their way somewhere or alternatively are looking for a place to go in order to kill time until their big event for the day starts.

Maps

One of the biggest things that you are going to find from the terminals is a map.  This map can be zoomed in and out at your convenience and can even be broken down into different area maps for easier loading and quicker access time.  The maps themselves will contain points of interest, historical sites, tourism sites and basically the locations of everything you could ever want to know or visit within Toronto.  Public transit locations are also featured on the maps so that everything is quite literally at your fingertips when you are looking at a map at an InfoToGo terminal.

Audio

As if the map itself weren’t enough, you can also sometimes get audio for a number of the different sites that are located on the map.  Whether you are looking for directions in speech from where you are standing to a nearby TTC station or are simply looking for information on a number of interesting sites in your location to decide which one to visit, the InfoToGo terminal might very well have what you are looking for in an easy to use audio delivery system that will have you on your way with confidence in no time flat.

Pocket Maps

If neither the map available at the terminal itself nor the audio system of delivery are enough to make you confident about finding your way around the city, then for a small fee of $2 (the machine operates through the use of loonies and toonies), you can actually get a fold out map of the city that you can then use to mark down where you want to go and the shortest route to get there.  One side of the map has an enlarged and higher scale printout of the downtown core of Toronto where most of the popular tourism destinations are located, while the other side has a lower scale representation of the entire city just in case you happen to find yourself in the suburbs later on.

There are currently 23 of these terminals spaced around the city at strategic places for people to use them if they need help.  These InfoToGo terminals are just the start of what promises to be a big push for tourism on the part of the Toronto government, so as more innovations are announced and get placed within the city, look for them to be featured here on The Toronto Traveler.

Maps of the 23 Terminal Locations

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