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Ok so someone I am helping with their Ning community has a lot of locations which are mentioned throughout their site and they were wondering how we could change those locations into maps automatically.  I am going to show you how to do two things like this..  First how to change an address into a link to google maps automatically and second, how to convert mentions of a location into an autogenerated map.

It'll look something like this

Ok so say you or your members add a bit of HTML to a post like this:

<br>
Automatically Generated Google Maps link:
<address class="link">
30 Rockafeller plaza
<br>
New York, NY 10112
</address>
<br>
Automatically Generated Embedded Google Map:
<address class="map">
30 Rockafeller plaza, New York NY 10112
</address>

After you add the following snippet of jquery code to your Custom Code (bottom).....

<script>

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

///Generate a google embeded map
x$(document).ready(function(){
//Convert address tags to google embedded map
x$("address.map").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( $(this).text() ) +"&amp;output=embed'></iframe>";
x$(this).html(embed);

});
});

 

</script>

 

Whenever anyone on your site wraps their location text inside either  of the two following HTML brackets, it will generate a map:

<address class="link">  LOCATION </address>

 

or

 

<address class="map">  LOCATION  </address>

 

Do you find this to be useful? Let me know..

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