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December 23, 2005
Official Google Earth Santa Tracker
[UPDATE: It's Christmas Eve! The santa tracker 2008 is now live!]
[EDIT: This was the 2005 Santa Tracker, for the 2008 Santa Tracker go here. You can also view Santa's Route to see a rough approximation of where he travelled.]
Google has released their own Santa Tracker 
for use with Google Earth. According to the announcement at the Google Earth Community the tracker will update every 10 seconds starting around 9:00 AM EST December 24th. The announcement was also made at the Google Blog.
Once you download the Santa Tracker above, you will follow Santa and his sleigh as he visits each town every 10 seconds or so. You can watch as he approaches your town and get the milk and cookies ready! I'm not sure what technology Google is using to follow Santa (GPS, Radar, or some Internet WIFI technology?), but perhaps they are linked into the Norad Santa Tracking system. Also, see this story about another GE file showing Santa's route.
Posted by FrankTaylor at December 23, 2005 9:22 PM
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Posted by: katarina at December 24, 2005 8:58 PM
ho-ho-ho
Posted by: csabae at December 8, 2006 1:05 AM
ho ho ho i love christmas!!!
Posted by: bob at December 18, 2006 5:47 AM
be sure to get some rest santa before you set off next sunday. we cant wait. mt brother and sister cant wait too.love from Sarah in Dublin
Posted by: sarah keohane at December 20, 2006 2:10 PM
Hello, i am gabriella. i hope to get a nice gift like a tamagotchi and such!
Posted by: gabriella at December 24, 2006 9:17 AM
Please fly carefully and if you can, please can i have a harmonica??
Posted by: laura at December 24, 2006 12:12 PM
Hi Santa have a safe trip around the world.We hope the reindeer stay safe landing on the roof tops.
Love Savannah and Mitchell in kelowna Canada
Posted by: Sa vannah & mitchell at December 24, 2006 12:13 PM
Hi santa i hope you have a safe tripe and i hope to get a quad and lots of elthe stuf I am at my gramma's house. agan have a safe trip
chad piper
Posted by: chad at December 24, 2006 1:58 PM
He is alomost here!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sooo excited!!
I love Chirstmas!!
Love isabella! Merry Chirstmas and a Happy New Year! HO HO HO HO!
Posted by: isabella at December 24, 2006 3:17 PM
Dear Santa,
I hope you come to my house. My brother and I hope you come to our house. I love you. Ho Ho Ho!
Posted by: Taylor at December 24, 2006 3:52 PM
Hi,my name is Andrea. Can you bring me a i-pod for Christmas?
Posted by: Andrea at December 24, 2006 4:01 PM
Hi, Santa does Rudolph want a snack because I would love to set him out one.
Posted by: Andrea at December 24, 2006 4:04 PM
Hi Santa. I made cookies for you.
-kerah [[4 yrs. old]]
Posted by: Kerah at December 24, 2006 6:20 PM
santa u r awsome u rock my sock by the way i counld use a pair of sock pimpt out santa
ps number one fan
Breanna of ne
Posted by: breanna p at December 24, 2006 8:28 PM
santa dont run over my grandma like last year
Posted by: breanna p at December 24, 2006 8:32 PM
I'm WAITING
Posted by: tp at December 24, 2006 9:08 PM
hope you have a good christmas and i hope everyone gets what they wanted hohoho !!!i love you !!
Posted by: karley at December 24, 2006 9:37 PM
Hey santa,
For christmas i want a Wii. Yea so Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Whitney at December 24, 2006 9:50 PM
have a safe trip,dont crash into any trees
Posted by: kenzie at December 24, 2006 9:58 PM
I will try to sleep so i dont have to be on your make up list so you can get back to the nort pole
to make presents for the makeing of next year sooner.
Posted by: Taylor Scott Swanson at December 24, 2006 9:59 PM
hi santa, i am waiting for you to come i am waiting still. ps i could use a DS
Posted by: Alexandra at December 24, 2006 10:08 PM
santa, i have been realy realy good hope u can fly without the rain without crashing alexandra
Posted by: alexandra at December 24, 2006 10:12 PM
hi its brianne,rachel,sonja have we been good???
where are u
Posted by: brianne at December 25, 2006 12:17 AM
hi its brianne,rachel,sonja have we been good???
where are u
Posted by: brianne at December 25, 2006 12:17 AM
what did sonja get???????????
what did rachel get?????????????
what did i (brianne)get???????????
ps brianne already has a ds games mabey!!!!!!!!
sonja wants littlest pet shops!!!!!!!!!!!
rachel want a nintendo we(brianne too)
ps the time is 9:22 where are u
???????????:(plzzzzz tell me)
Posted by: brianne at December 25, 2006 12:21 AM
Dear Santa
I would like a ceramic hair iron
Thank you!
Posted by: Rhianna at December 25, 2006 1:46 AM
Dear Santa
I would like a ceramic hair iron
Thank you!
Posted by: Rhianna at December 25, 2006 1:46 AM
Hi Santa, please don't forget me in Hawaii. I hope you have a good trip and be safe!
Posted by: Robert Andrews at December 25, 2006 3:47 AM
I love you Santa some of my Friends
dont" think your" real but I allyase do
can you pleese get me Dana the
Bratz doll this chirstmas
love Hal, (7 years old)
Posted by: Haley at May 18, 2007 10:25 PM
dear santa i would like a labtop that has a dvd player.also i would like happiness for my mom,dad my two sisters and the rest of my family because my grampa died may 4th,2005 and everyone misses him.especialy me,my mom,and my grama.
love
shay
Posted by: shay at July 13, 2007 9:20 PM
dear santa clause,
all I would like for christmas is a dog.
Posted by: Jordan McCarthy at November 12, 2007 8:06 AM
all i want for xmas is £.900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 please please please please please please if not can i have an ant and if u cant aford please leave me a cookie
Posted by: ben at December 1, 2007 12:23 PM
Dear Santa,
Well. Ho Ho Ho! have a safe trip
by the way, may i please have a hot pink razor (cell phone)
Oh em gee thanks so much keep up the good work!
=D
Posted by: Courtney at December 24, 2007 12:07 PM
Dear Santa,
i caint wait to here from you well the bells anyways, i would like a couple cds and my family to be happy this year ast Christmas. ohh also i am going to leave a carrot or two for the deer so dont eat them ha ha ... Merry Christmas Santa
~5 year old~
Posted by: samantha at December 24, 2007 1:02 PM
im watchin u lol santa u rock lol cnt wait til i get up on xmas mornin lol plzzzz leave meyy loads of prezzies
from abi and wozza
xoxo
Posted by: abbie and wozza at December 24, 2007 3:08 PM
im watchin u lol santa u rock lol cnt wait til i get up on xmas mornin lol plzzzz leave meyy loads of prezzies
from abi and wozza
xoxo
Posted by: abbie and wozza at December 24, 2007 3:08 PM
Hi Santa,
This is Tripp and Trystan. We are waiting on you but mama said we have to be asleep to get presents. Please dont miss us, we have been good. If you dont mind, could you bring us a wii. Have a safe trip and be careful.
Love, Tripp and Trystan
PS dont forget that we moved from Louisiana to Texas.
Posted by: tripp and trystan at December 24, 2007 6:26 PM
Santa,
Have a safe trip. We hope that you make it into New Mexico safely. We didn't have any snow so please be careful. All we would like for Christmas is World peace and of course the Dallas Cowboys to go to the Super Bowl. We love you.
Merry Christmas
Posted by: Corey C. at December 25, 2007 12:25 AM
Dear Santa I loved the presents you gave me. Thank you! I just wanted to say have a safe trip next year. Your Best Christmas. P.S. This year we will have a present for you!
Posted by: Madalyn at February 1, 2008 4:04 PM
all of you people that left comments left them in 2005 diddn'tg to leave you well im going to leave this now in 2008 and i am soo exited for christmas this year and i hope santa and everyone aroung the whole world this year has a very merry christmas and a happy new year!
ps: i hope you lot all get what you asked for from santa this year x
Posted by: charlotte at December 14, 2008 4:26 AM
merry christmas! and have a great holiday season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i hope u get alot of presents!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Charlotte at December 23, 2008 5:42 PM
Hi santa,
Have I been good this year?? It's been a tough year though..
Please come to my house, also my little brother, Louis says hi and please come!!
We have left some carrots for your reindeers and milk and cookies for you!!
Love Bex xox
Posted by: bex at December 24, 2008 3:56 PM
Sorry for not listening to my mommy and daddy sometimes.. please get me biscuit and that truck. Merry Christmas Santa!
Posted by: james at December 24, 2008 5:17 PM
Dear Santa I love you. Merry Christmas Santa!!! I have been a very good girl this year. I hope you make home safely to the North Pole.
Posted by: makaila lewy at December 24, 2008 6:43 PM
Santa is in hartford cnneticut right now the whole time weve been watching the tracker hes been going straght up and down!
Posted by: jamie at December 24, 2008 11:46 PM
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I hope you comme bye today and leave us somme presents.Im really couting on you Santa.Please dont forget me I really look up to you and so does my family.Oh! and good luck to you and have a great christmas