Local Seo

I know, this may be off the topic, but I could not find where to ask this question on your website. Your local seo plugin generating Geo Sitemaps, which are no longer supported by google. Is this correct?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/94555?hl=en

If it is, is there still benefit of buying it?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/