title: Hide poi.business markers/labels in Google Static Maps API
body: <p>I'm building a static Google Map URL to be used within <code>&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;</code> tag on a 'Find Us' page as fall-back in case a user has scripting turned off. Code thus far is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="map" class="map"&gt;
      &lt;noscript&gt;
          &lt;img src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=[lat],[long]
              &amp;zoom=17
              &amp;size=600x400
              &amp;scale=1
              &amp;maptype=hybrid
              &amp;visible=[lat],[long]
              &amp;key=[key hidden]"&gt;
      &lt;/noscript&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, on the resulting map image, there are markers for other businesses (e.g. orange knife &amp; fork markers for restaurants) and/or points of interest.</p>
  
  <p>I want to suppress the display of these markers, and add a custom marker for my location of interest (&amp;<code>markers=....</code> not shown in the code snippet above).</p>
  
  <p>I cannot find anything in the Static Maps API documentation, nor on stackoverflow.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to achieve this, or am I stuck with them on a Static Map? </p>