Determine southwest and northeast point for bounds in Google maps

Question

I have a set of markers on google map (say 6). Now i want to zoom in only to certain level that displays all markers well for that i used getBoundsZoomLevel().

Problem is I dont know how to determine the BOUNDS from array of latitude and longitude.

Can somebody tell me how to determine south-west and north-east point for a bound???

I found this one post but i m not able to understand it as i dont know what is DIST... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605805/southwest-and-northeast-points

Answer 1

Take a look at LatLngBounds http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#LatLngBounds

As you added new LatLngs you can call extend(point:LatLng), the bounds will then contain all of your added LatLngs.