Box/Rectangle Draw Selection in Google Maps - google-maps

Question

I am working on Google Maps and want to implement a feature where a user can draw a box/rectangle using his/her mouse to select a region on map (like selecting multiple files in windows). Upon selection, I want to get all the markers that fall in the region. I have been looking around both Google Maps api and search but I am unable to find a solution. I tried using jQuery Selectable for selection but all it returns is a bunch of divs from which I am unable to determine if any marker is selected or not.

Answer 1

I found a Library keydragzoom (http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tags/keydragzoom/1.0/docs/reference.html) and used it to draw a rectangle on the page.
Later, I edit the library and stopped it from zooming the selected area and instead made it return the correct co-ordinates in 'dragend' event. Then I manually looped through all the marker on the map to find the markers that are within that particular region. The library was not giving me the proper co-ordinates to I made the following changes.
Changed the DragZoom function to
var prj = null;
function DragZoom(map, opt_zoomOpts) {
var ov = new google.maps.OverlayView();
var me = this;
ov.onAdd = function () {
me.init_(map, opt_zoomOpts);
};
ov.draw = function () {
};
ov.onRemove = function () {
};
ov.setMap(map);
this.prjov_ = ov;
google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'idle', function () {
prj = ov.getProjection();
});
}
and DragZoom.prototype.onMouseUp_ function to
DragZoom.prototype.onMouseUp_ = function (e) {
this.mouseDown_ = false;
if (this.dragging_) {
var left = Math.min(this.startPt_.x, this.endPt_.x);
var top = Math.min(this.startPt_.y, this.endPt_.y);
var width = Math.abs(this.startPt_.x - this.endPt_.x);
var height = Math.abs(this.startPt_.y - this.endPt_.y);
var points={
top: top,
left: left,
bottom: top + height,
right: left + width
};
var prj = this.prjov_.getProjection();
// 2009-05-29: since V3 does not have fromContainerPixel,
//needs find offset here
var containerPos = getElementPosition(this.map_.getDiv());
var mapPanePos = getElementPosition(this.prjov_.getPanes().mapPane);
left = left + (containerPos.left - mapPanePos.left);
top = top + (containerPos.top - mapPanePos.top);
var sw = prj.fromDivPixelToLatLng(new google.maps.Point(left, top + height));
var ne = prj.fromDivPixelToLatLng(new google.maps.Point(left + width, top));
var bnds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds(sw, ne);
//this.map_.fitBounds(bnds);
this.dragging_ = false;
this.boxDiv_.style.display = 'none';
/**
* This event is fired when the drag operation ends.
* Note that the event is not fired if the hot key is released before the drag operation ends.
* #name DragZoom#dragend
* #param {GLatLngBounds} newBounds
* #event
*/
google.maps.event.trigger(this, 'dragend', points);
}
};