The new feature, however, isn’t a separate app, but the increased obsession with smartphone photography and the resulting food photography does seem to have finally found a good use.

Google’s Street View allows you to see panoramic views of streets from your mobile device, allowing you to “take a walk” along a street so that you can check out a neighborhood. Google Maps will then send a notification to that user asking if it can post the image for the benefit of other users.

Google Maps version 9.13.0 for Android places a thumbnail preview of a location in the bottom left corner of the screen for inputted addresses and places for which you’ve pressed and held on the map.

The company launched an experimental food photography service called Tablescape earlier this year but shut down the app in June, saying it would invest resources into other projects. Few months ago, Google closed its food shot app named Tablescape. The search engine giant said that it is only a two-tap process, so it will not waste much of your precious time.

That influence is clear in this latest Google initiative. This feature of Map is now in testing phase, but if everything goes well and the testing is successful, then it is possible that we will be able to see this feature in near future.