Where is USS Iowa

[andyA700]

The four Iowa class battleships are now museum ships - Missouri is in Pearl Harbour, Wisconsin is in Norfolk, Virginia, New Jersey in Camden New Jersey, but when I look at Google Earth, Iowa seems to be missing from its berth in Los Angeles. The other ships are clearly visible.

[Poisson96]

It's open for tours so must be back now.

[paintman]

Quick google:
www.19fortyfive.com/2021/12/battleship-uss-iowa-fu...

[Hill92]

She's right there, just edited out in the default view (which is dated 2020). If you look at the pier closely you can see her forward morning lines reach out then disappear.

Google have an algorithm to remove non-static objects from aerial and street view imagery using a combination of multiple images/magic eraser. Its main purpose is to remove vehicles and pedestrians hence the empty car parks and quiet freeways even before 2019.

This is 'desirable' as it makes the maps neater and easier to use (e.g. to see lane markings), helps to stitch together all the different images that make up the 3D aerial views and provides a base for photogrammetry use (3D models, flight simulators, VR etc).

The algorithm can also be applied to airports and ports. Heathrow appears to have no parked aircraft for example (it was never that empty even at the quietest part of lockdown)

Looks like the algorithm just got a bit carried away at the Los Angeles Waterfront through a combination of it being a priority city for mapping and the nearby container ports/cruise ship terminals.

The unedited historic imagery view on the desktop version of Google Earth versions show she has been there along since first arriving in 2012.

Her sisters are in less trafficked locations so the algorithm has left them alone.

[Cold]

You have to jump out of your Google spaceship/aeroplane and put your little Google man onto the dockside.

[Simpo Two]

Hill92 said:

Google have an algorithm to remove non-static objects from aerial and street view imagery using a combination of multiple images/magic eraser. Its main purpose is to remove vehicles and pedestrians hence the empty car parks and quiet freeways even before 2019.

I can't think USS Iowa moves enough at her moorings to trigger that. Do you mean it's so busy with people that Google just blots out the whole thing?

[Hill92]

Simpo Two said:

I can't think USS Iowa moves enough at her moorings to trigger that. Do you mean it's so busy with people that Google just blots out the whole thing?

I think the overall port is busy enough that Iowa is just collateral damage from removing all large ship shapes in the water. It's right next to the cruise ship terminal in particular and the historic imagery (which actually includes more recent imagery of lower quality (cloud cover etc) shows there is usually a cruise ship moored immediately after of her.

[Hol]

It was definitely there three years ago.

[aeropilot]

Hill92 said:

She's right there, just edited out in the default view (which is dated 2020). If you look at the pier closely you can see her forward morning lines reach out then disappear.

Google have an algorithm to remove non-static objects from aerial and street view imagery using a combination of multiple images/magic eraser. Its main purpose is to remove vehicles and pedestrians hence the empty car parks and quiet freeways even before 2019.

Must be done in the new version, as I remember it was clearly visible in the previous version of that 2020, as when there was the talk about a year ago of Queen Mary being scrapped, I was looking at the area on Google maps, and Iowa was clearly visible then.

The other are visible at their respective berths, and New Jersey is in an equally busy waterway/waterfront mooring?

[andyA700]

aeropilot said:

Hill92 said:

She's right there, just edited out in the default view (which is dated 2020). If you look at the pier closely you can see her forward morning lines reach out then disappear.

Google have an algorithm to remove non-static objects from aerial and street view imagery using a combination of multiple images/magic eraser. Its main purpose is to remove vehicles and pedestrians hence the empty car parks and quiet freeways even before 2019.

Must be done in the new version, as I remember it was clearly visible in the previous version of that 2020, as when there was the talk about a year ago of Queen Mary being scrapped, I was looking at the area on Google maps, and Iowa was clearly visible then.

The other are visible at their respective berths, and New Jersey is in an equally busy waterway/waterfront mooring?

I was looking at Google maps last year and it was there. I had no idea that stuff was being removed from Google maps to "tidy up". I did know that if you look at French military airfields they are pixelated, so you don't see anything, whereas, all other countries just leave well alone.