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December 6, 2019 01:32 pm GMT

Google Maps might soon start making sure you don&8217;t wander into a dark alley

Google Maps might soon start making sure you don’t wander into a dark alley

Google may be working on a cool feature that'll make your walking commute a bit safer: A new "lighting" layer in Google Maps that highlights brightly lit streets when traveling on foot. 

This is according to XDA Developers, whose experts dug up lines of code in Google Maps beta that indicate such a feature is coming. From the information contained there, it appears that Google Maps will highlight well-lit streets with a yellow color. 

The feature doesn't appear to be live yet, and there's no word on when that might happen. 

Still, it's one of those small but potentially life-saving features that makes Maps such a great product. If you're making your way through a city at night, navigating via Google Maps, you'll certainly appreciate not being sent into a dark, dangerous-looking alley or even main roads without adequate streetlights.  Read more...

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