Comments on: Photosynthing the nation's capital

CNET News' Ina Fried tries out Microsoft's photo-stitching tool on a couple of D.C. landmarks with mixed results.

[Penguinisto]

Well, you could always find an eBay copy of the old (and long-since dead) Canoma (it's been sitting in Corel's graveyard for ages now)... it does the exact same thing but without the network connection requirement.

Canoma came out in the mid 1990's: http://www.canoma.com/

[rapier1]

No, not really. Having use Canoma back in the 90s and photosynth recently they are doing different things and geared towards solving different problems.

[hlywd217]

I went to look at the Photosynth thing..all I saw was a bunch of dots in the outline/shape of the Lincoln Memorial. Any ideas?

[kojacked]

"it does the exact same thing but without the network connection requirement."

I'm confused: in some cases enabling users to access there data from anywhere (a.k.a. in the cloud) is a good thing and in others it's not? Oh, that's right Peng I forgot! Only if it's Microsoft it's a bad thing! Doh! You got me again with your insight and wisdom!

[greger--2008]

Here is a cool synth of the Jefferson Memorial. http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=903fb192-ecd0-4251-b4ca-feb5fdd05565