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not really, because they'd have to constantly collect its users' location in order to do that.
There's nothing that stops a FOSS app from doing that, or pinging a server that checks Google maps periodically
I'm well aware there's no technological obstacle. many people choose FOSS maps over Google to have less of their data collected though, so I could imagine they'd object to such practice, which would make the feature less effective.