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

What about this : http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72644

Feb, 2016:

I needed to do this based on client entered database values and without a lat/long generator. Google really likes lat/long these days. Here is what I learned:

1 The beginning of the link looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/place/

2 Then you put your address:

• Use a + instead of any space.
• Put a comma , in front and behind the city.
• Include the postal/zip and the province/state.
• Replace any # with nothing.
• Replace any ++ or ++++ with single +

3 Put the address after the place/

4 Then put a slash at the end.

NOTE: The slash at the end was important. After the user clicks the link, Google goes ahead and appends more to the URL and they do it after this slash.

Working example for this question:

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/1200+Pennsylvania+Ave+SE,+Washington,+DC+20003/

I hope that helps.

How about this?

https://maps.google.com/?q=1200 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20003

https://maps.google.com/?q=term

If you have lat-long then use below URL

https://maps.google.com/?ll=latitude,longitude

Example: maps.google.com/?ll=38.882147,-76.99017

UPDATE

As of year 2017, Google now has an official way to create cross-platform Google Maps URLs:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide

You can use links like

https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1200%20Pennsylvania%20Ave%20SE%2C%20Washington%2C%20District%20of%20Columbia%2C%2020003 

I know I'm very late to the game, but thought I'd contribute for posterity's sake.

I wrote a short jQuery function that will automatically turn any <address> tags into Google maps links.

See a demo here.

$(document).ready(function () {
   //Convert address tags to google map links - Michael Jasper 2012
   $('address').each(function () {
      var link = "<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=" + encodeURIComponent( $(this).text() ) + "' target='_blank'>" + $(this).text() + "</a>";
      $(this).html(link);
   });
});

Bonus:

I also came across a situation that called for generating embedded maps from the links, and though I'd share with future travelers:

View a full demo

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("address").each(function(){                         
        var embed ="<iframe width='425' height='350' frameborder='0' scrolling='no'  marginheight='0' marginwidth='0' src='https://maps.google.com/maps?&amp;q="+ encodeURIComponent( $(this).text() ) +"&amp;output=embed'></iframe>";
        $(this).html(embed);             
    });
});