Extending Bounds For Polygons — Google Maps V3 Javascript API

Question

My goal is to detect if a marker is within an oddly shaped polygon object (think 25 different points). I have noticed that the LatLngBounds property, only contains two se

Answer 1

The bounds of a polygon is a rectangle. If you want to detect if a marker is in the polygon use the containsLocation function in google.maps.geometry.poly namespace, passing it the polygon and the position of the marker

containsLocation(point:LatLng, polygon:Polygon) | boolean | Computes whether the given point lies inside the specified polygon.