Generating link to full map with MX Google Maps

Question

I have MX Google Maps working fine on a per-entry basis, but I'd like to give the user an option to view the full map on Google Maps.

This doesn't work:

<p>{the-map}
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q={title}+{address}+{city}+
{state}+{zipcode}@{latitude},{longitude}" target="_blank">
Full-size Google Map</a>
{/the-map}

Ideas why?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what about your example doesn't work, but you don't need your link to contain so much information if you don't need it to. Simply using the longitude / latitude is enough to get your location up in Google Maps.

For example Tower Bridge, London can be linked just using:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.505591,-0.075402

So with your example it'd be:

<p>{the-map}
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q={latitude},{longitude}" target="_blank">
Full-size Google Map</a>
{/the-map}

If after all that, it's your MX Google Map tags that aren't outputting correctly then this will be of no help what so ever!