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This book http://www.amazon.ca/The-Astronomical-Companion-Guy-Ottewell/dp/0934546010 has great diagrams for this kind of thing. The plane of the solar system is about 30 degrees off the plane of the Milky way. So then we make a kind of a flattened corkscrew. Also; we are in the Orion Spur: http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/images/kepler-galaxy.jpg. So our movement to a "Different portion of space" could be best determined by studying the Solar Apex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_apex

If you're interested in stellar cartography I can recommend Guy Ottewell's book: "The Astronomical Companion":

https://www.amazon.com/Astronomical-Companion-Guy-Ottewell/dp/0934546010