Android phones, apps and tablets

*3. I can help with.

If the address in the calender event doesn't turn into a link, it won't do it. So it's worth always checking when you enter a location into an event to see if it turns into a link.*

How do you do that? I very rarely get Google Now popping up with my appointments. I suspect it may be because most of them are entered into Outlook and then synced via Google Calendar Sync

I don't know about Outlook events, sorry. When I create a new event on my Google Calendar, it asks me to enter a location, when I save the event the location turns into a clickable link that opens maps. If Outlook doesn't have a location field then I guess it's not going to work unless you add one manually.