How to disable places on google map V3?

Question

I\'m trying to migrate my application to latest version of Google map API and found that Google appends it\'s own items by default from Google Places directory to the map. It d

Answer 1

You can remove it by adding the following code:

var styles = [
   {
     featureType: "poi",
     stylers: [
      { visibility: "off" }
     ]   
    }
];

var styledMap = new google.maps.StyledMapType(styles,{name: "Styled Map"});

Answer 2

Just a pointer - this seems possible with custom styled maps. If I'm not mistaken, the feature type you're looking for would be poi.business, whose visiblity you would turn off.

There's a wizard to help you build the options array.