How to convert an address into a Google Maps Link (NOT MAP)

Question

After looking (Googling) on the web for a while, I can find nothing that takes an address like:

1200 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, District of Columb

Answer 1

Borrowing from Michael Jasper's and Jon Hendershot's solutions, I offer the following:

$('address').each(function() {
    var text = $(this).text();

    var q    = $.trim(text).replace(/\r?\n/, ',').replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
    var link = '';

    return $(this).wrapInner(link);
});

This solution offers the following benefits over solutions previously offered:

• It will not remove HTML tags (e.g.
tags) within
  , so formatting is preserved
• It properly encodes the URL
• It squashes extra spaces so that the generated URL is shorter and cleaner and human-readable after encoding
• It produces valid markup (Mr.Hendershot's solution creates
  which is invalid because block-level elements such as
  are not permitted within inline elements such as .

Caveat: If your

tag contains block-level elements like

or

, then this JavaScript code will produce in invalid markup (because the tag will contain those block-level elements). But if you're just doing stuff like this:

  The White House
  

  1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
  

  Washington, D.C.  20500

Then it'll work just fine.

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