I learned using Petra's way, it may have even been Petra who taught me years ago.......but now I'm using EC and theres another way......not better, not worse or harder, just different.
http://www.stratics.com/community/threads/make-it-easy-with-pincos-ui.301355/
I'm using the EC and Pinco's UI, and I haven't been more than a step or two off the mark...I have ZERO mining on my t-hunter.
Read/Watch it a couple of times, play with the controls he talks about, for me it was easy as pie.....eating pie, not baking pie, baking pie is hard, eating it is easy.
Parrot
THunter/Bard/Mage
Baja
PS, I should say that I use the alpha setting and fade out the map, and move a few spaces, then adjust the maps until I'm standing where I wanna be, works for me everytime.