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Google is never satisfied with Google Maps and this is a good thing. The latest test being conducted on the Google Maps app will change the look of the pins you place on the app to save the location of a place that you want to remember. Currently, if you zoom out on the Google Maps app, these pins start moving closer to each other until all that's left is one pin.
At left, pins in the current version of Google Maps compared to the smaller icon-less pins being tested by Google in the beta version of the app . | Image credit-9to5Google
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