Not an ideal implementation (too much logic resides in the
gui QgsMapCanvasAnnotationItem class), but any approach
using current api will be dependant on some hacks.
Ideally we need a QgsVectorDataProvider method for finding
the closest feature(s) to a point(/line/polygon) within a
certain tolerance, with provider specific implementations
which offload this to the data store's spatial indices.
Then this handling could be bumped up to reside in
QgsAnnotation.
