Dutch tech site All About Phones claims that Google Maps Navigation will get a true offline mode later this summer. In December the Android app received an update that cached routesand the surrounding areas, but without a data connection you still couldn't enter a new destination. A source inside the Dutch telco industry said that Goog would removing the requirement for coverage -- an obvious next step for the nav tool, especially with Ovi Maps bringing its turn-by-turn prowess to WP7. The move is also bound to be another thorn in the side of standalone GPS makers like Garmin and TomTom. After all, it's tough to compete with free
-->Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores
-->Ability to publish, view, and share panoramas on the Photosynth web site
-->Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns (usually by a robotic device like the GigaPan tripod heads)
-->No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas
-->Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component
-->Ability to read raw images using WIC codecs
-->Photoshop layer and large document support
Additional features
-->State-of-the-art stitching engine
-->Automatic exposure blending
-->Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection
-->Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation
-->Automatic cropping to maximum image area
-->Native support for 64-bit operating systems
-->Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and Silverlight Deep Zoom