Use Google and NORAD Santa Tracker apps to track Santa’s location this Christmas Eve. These apps are now available worldwide.
Just type “Where is Santa Claus?” into the address bar, and you can follow the travels of Old Saint Nick from one city to another in real time.
Google’s Santa Tracker app has a real-time map that shows Santa’s current location, the gift counter sent out, and the estimated time of arrival at your location.
Santa will visit more than 500 locations, and you can learn more from the photo gallery taken by Google Local Guides.
In addition to the real-time map, Google’s mini-site to track Santa also contains a series of additional content, which is increasing every year.
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Since its launch in 2004, Google has been building a center for tracking Santa.
In previous years, Google used this center to test new technologies, which later became a permanent addition to search results.
Recently, in 2019, Google launched the “3D View” function in the Santa Tracking Center. This allows users to view 3D objects through augmented reality (AR) through the phone’s camera.
Google engineer Dave Holmes Attributes What he knows about tracking Santa’s work:
“Because of tracking Santa, we figured out how to do so many different things-how to build things, how to start things, how to make things accessible, how to improve web design, how to optimize tools. I like to say that I learned from Google Everything I learned from Santa Claus.”
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The Google team’s lessons learned by tracking Santa’s work have benefited other areas, such as Doodle and apps created by developers for Google I/O and other activities.
Google’s developers are committed to making the experience better and more interactive every year.
To explore all the content that has been developed so far, see the complete Google Tracks Santa Mini site.
You can install the Chrome desktop app from the main site. Google also provides a mobile app to track Santa Android.
NORAD Santa Tracker
We can’t talk about tracking Santa without mentioning the tracker that activates it all.
The original Santa Tracker, operated by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), is back online for the 66th consecutive year.
You don’t need to perform mathematical calculations to realize that 66 years ago were decades before the advent of the Internet.
So how did NORAD Santa Tracker exist for so long?
It was originally launched over the phone line and is still available today!
Except following Santa’s journey Dedicated website, NORAD continues to operate the call center.
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If you find that you don’t have an Internet connection somewhere on Christmas Eve, please call 1-877-HiNORAD (1-877-446-6723) to get the latest report on Santa’s location.
NORAD will provide real-time updates throughout the day on its social media channels, so you can Follow Santa on Twitter When he travels the world.
Like Google’s Santa Tracker, NORAD also provides various additional features, such as games, videos, music, real-time Santa cameras, etc.
The whole team of SEJ, wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Featured image: Screenshot from blog.google/inside-google, December 2021.
