How to remove box from new Google Maps embeds?

Question

Google appear to have changed how their iFrames work. There is now an infobox at the top left that tries to display the place name. The problem is that here in Ireland it's often impossible to use the name of the business to pinpoint a map, and often you need to use the street name etc etc, which makes the box functionaly useless as the name of the street is right there on the map, as well as on the page beside the map!

How can I get rid of this thing? In this example the business is in the same building as Irish Coaches. Maps insists that by putting in the address, this solicitor for some reason want's to inform its prospective clients of where Irish Coaches is!

I've tried iwloc but it does nothing, and I can't effect it via CSS and jQuery because it's on another domain!

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It works when you use coordinates instead of the business name, as of 1/22/2018

1. Go to Maps Ie to get your Coordinates
2. Go to Google Maps and enter those coordinates (comma separated like this: 33.319663, -111.89780100000002)
3. Click on Share (located on the left)
4. Click on Embed Map
5. Configure the size of map that you want
6. Copy the html

Resulting html is something like this:

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3333.967410377096!2d-111.89998968453055!3d33.31966746342457!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x0!2zMzPCsDE5JzEwLjgiTiAxMTHCsDUzJzUyLjEiVw!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1516690469899" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Answer 2

This stopped working around February 2017. They must've updated their API. :(

PLEASE USE ZETA'S EXAMPLE FROM 1/22/2018

This is how you do it!

Working version

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2381.7399040776495!2d-6.261147484122739!3d53.34791197997939!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1462581622087" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I noticed a pattern in another site's embed that only had the "View larger map" text and none of the extra stuff. Just a few characters had to be removed.

Full embed you are given

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2381.7399040776495!2d-6.261147484122739!3d53.34791197997939!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x48670e84fbdd6bd3%3A0x998692b4f1b691e1!2sUlster+Bank+Chambers%2C+O&#39;Connell+Street+Lower%2C+Dublin+1%2C+Ireland!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1462581622087" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

This is the part that's removed

1m2!1s0x48670e84fbdd6bd3%3A0x998692b4f1b691e1!2sUlster+Bank+Chambers%2C+O'Connell+Street+Lower%2C+Dublin+1%2C+Ireland!5e0!

I've tried it for other addresses as well.