Google Earths Biggest Ship Collection discussion

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This is a discussion thread for the following file:

Google Earths Biggest Ship Collection

A collection of the "Biggest" ships visible in Google Earth, ranging from 950-1324 feet. The ships differ in type: container ship, tanker, military ship, cruise ship, or ships under construction. Color-coded by size (every 100 feet).

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With new imagery from the update, some new ships found and some old ships lost.

Barcelona: One 1100+ footer removed, two 950+ footers added.
Philadelphia: One 1009 foot becomes 998 foot, One 1060 aircraft carrier lost (USS America).
Cyprus: A 970 footer became a 965 footer.
Norfolk, VA: 5 new 957 footers, a new 1120 foot supercarrier, USS George H.W. Bush moved.
Spain: A 1083 footer gone,
Oregon: 960 footer in Portland
San Fran: 953 footer gone, 996 footer added,

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With new Imagery, another new update.
20 ships gone, 20 new ships added. What an even number.._

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New update, new ships....including a HUGE 1374 foot ship...

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Originally Posted by SpiderX22

New update, new ships....including a HUGE 1374 foot ship...

July imagery, new update. This behemoth is now gone.

Okay, Singapore is always changed every update....

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New update for the October imagery, and other ships I missed before that.

What's new?:
-Version 3:
-Added "Submitter list"
-New ships added:
950-999: 7
1000-1099: 5
1100-1199: 2

-Old Ships removed: ##
950-999: 2

The screenshots differ because the old pictures used the old GE (Version 3) Compass

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First big change: Google did a lot of color modifications of files, so a lot of the screenshots (in the thumbnails) look different than what your seeing. What's visible in the image is the same, but the colros are different. I did not feel like changing all the images because it's a ton of work, and there's no saying how often or when Google will change the colors again.

Ships Lost: 5, including the Queen Mary II

Added:
Six "950-999" footers
Six "1000-1099" footers
Three "1100-1199" footers

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I KNEW saving the old ships would be a splendid idea...now I can go back and set the timeslider and no ships will actually have been lost! AMAZING!

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First real update since December 2008.
Version 4:
Outdated ships updated. Timeslider feature can be used to recover them. Best outdated ships (specific ships or any ship over 1150 feet long) restored to their original folders with notes. File otherwise contains only ships visible with current imagery (there's an outdated folder if you really want to see the old ships).
Thumbnails removed.

A lot of ships added (including the resurrection of the two separate finds of the Queen Mary II and the 1374 foot long supertanker), a few removed.

There are now 354 ships on the current imagery, 9 ships with timeslider position saved, and 60 outdated (but timeslider-seeable) files in this folder.

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Added 19 new ships, the majority in South Korea after this update. Added a new graph that shows where all the ships are located.