mapbox / mapbox/mapbox-gl-draw

Add box-selection mode for selecting multiple vertices at once

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Description

**mapbox-gl-js version**: newest
**mapbox-gl-draw version**: newest

### Steps to Trigger Behavior

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### Expected Behavior

I would like to select verticles programatically.
Currently I can't see the possibility of selecting only a couple of verticles of a polygon.

I'd like to add a function when I hold a key + click + drag draw a bounding box which selects the verticles of the selected feature within the bounding box.

Draw a bbox and select features example:
https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/using-box-queryrenderedfeatures/

I want the same but selecting the vertex of the currently selected feature instead the whole feature's each vertex.

### Actual Behavior

Currently, If I want to select multiple vertexes I have to zoom in, hold the shift key and click vertexes one-by-one which is very slow and frustrating, especially when I'm working with a bigger geojson file (5MB).

Why I need it? Sometimes there are many unneccessary points within a polygon that I want to remove.

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Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the existing vertex-selection interaction and the linked Mapbox box-query-rendered-features example; done means a key-plus-drag bounding box selects only vertices within the currently selected feature.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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