Can I remove just the popup bubbles of POI's in Google Maps API v3?

Question

So I\'m working on a new web app that has a big focus on maps. Using Google Maps API v3 and really happy with it but noticed that the points of interest (POI\'s) have autom

Answer 1

Edit: Ok, looks like Google implemented a solution, look at xomena answer.

Ok, after searching everywhere it looks like you can't just display the POIs with clicking disabled, you could look here for more discussions:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/f1ac9ad4da3606fe/3975bbda46904ae7?lnk=gst&q=disable+poi#3975bbda46904ae7

and this exchange in particular:

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Hi,

Is there any possibilltiy to make POIs visible but not clickable?

Thanks Lorenzo

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Chris Broadfoot

Unfortunately not Lorenzo. You'll need to apply a map style to hide poi labels:

[ { featureType: "poi", elementType: "labels", stylers: [ { visibility: "off" } ] } ]

(or to just hide business pois, "poi.business")

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This comes from Google Maps developers, so means you can't disable the popup, just the POIs.