Indeed, HERE has been doing this for such long time, it seems quite comical that Google is now coming out with this "new" feature – especially since offline map

Indeed, HERE has been doing this for such long time, it seems quite comical that Google is now coming out with this "new" feature – especially since offline maps were already in GMaps Android before they did the latest design overhaul. They don't seem to be giving much weight to users downloading maps for offline, so bets are off that they are gonna again dump this feature next time they do a new "design language" or such.