{"id":3838,"date":"2007-12-15T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T15:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/track-santa-using-google-earth\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:37:58","slug":"track-santa-using-google-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/track-santa-using-google-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Santa using Google Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"Santa Google Earth\" id=\"image3840\" alt=\"Santa Google Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/12\/santa-google-earth.png\" \/>I remember as kid wondering when Santa would finally arrive at my house. Of course, the harder I tried to stay awake, the more futile it became until I fell asleep and the presents magically appeared at the end of my bed in the morning. Those days are over however with <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/tracking-santa-then-and-now.html\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\/adde?moduleurl=http:\/\/www.labpixies.com\/gadgads\/norad\/norad_new.xml&amp;source=snta\">NORAD Tracks Santa iGoogle gadget<\/a> which allows you to see exactly where world he is, using <a href=\"http:\/\/google-earth.en.softonic.com\">Google Earth<\/a>. You might be thinking you&#8217;ve heard of NORAD before and you&#8217;d be right. NORAD (North American Defence Command) were the people responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2006\/08\/norad200608\">failing to scramble<\/a> a single jet to intercept the hijacked planes on 9-11 and it seems they&#8217;re focusing their energy on less taxing missions with this plugin.<\/p>\n<p>From December 24th, you&#8217;ll be able to follow Santa as he delivers present to the children of the world in just one night. Yes &#8211; an amazing feat made even more amazing by the fact that his only vehicle is a sleigh pulled by reindeers. If you log onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/\">Norad Christmas website<\/a> at the same time, you&#8217;ll also be able to download and extra plugin so that you can watch the whole journey in 3D. I&#8217;d like to see someone try and tell me Santa doesn&#8217;t exist now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember as kid wondering when Santa would finally arrive at my house. Of course, the harder I tried to stay awake, the more futile it became until I fell asleep and the presents magically appeared at the end of my bed in the morning. Those days are over however with Google&#8217;s new NORAD Tracks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/track-santa-using-google-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Track Santa using Google Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2377],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336587,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/336587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}