Google Maps is getting an ingenious new feature that we never saw coming

In its never-ending quest to make Google Maps as useful as possible, Google keeps adding features to its popular navigation app, including functionality you might not necessarily associate with a mapping application. That's precisely the case for the following feature, which can be very helpful in all sorts of situations. It's also the kind of functionality we never knew we needed, or saw coming. Google has yet to unveil the new Lighting layer that's coming to Maps, but an xda-developers teardow...