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December 30, 2011
The Year 2011 in Google Earth
Google Earth had a tremendous year in 2011. Our most popular story of the year, by far, was from people searching for Osama bin Laden's compound in May. There was also quite a bit of interest in resources for the Japanese earthquake, as Google Earth is an excellent platform to share imagery and information for an event like that.
Here's a quick look back at the biggest stories for each month of 2011.
January
There wasn't any major Google Earth news in January, but we saw cool things like Louis Zamperini's journey mapped in Google Earth and Google hosted the 2011 GSA Penrose Conference.
February
Google brought art galleries into Street View and GeoEye provided some amazing imagery of the protests in Egypt.
March
Google was quick to respond to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami with high-resolution post-earthquake imagery shortly after the disaster and 3DConnexion sold their one millionth 3D mouse.
April
This month Google made some great enhancements to the mountain layer in Google Earth and we got some fresh imagery from the tornadoes that ravaged Alabama.
May
Google added 3D building support for Android tablets and people flocked to Google Earth to try to see Osama bin Laden's compound.
June
More 3D trees started appearing in a few cities and fresh imagery was released from the Nabro Volcano in Africa.
July
July brought the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu, South Sudan became a new country and the final space shuttle launch was tracked in Google Earth.
August
In August we showed you some fresh imagery of the damage from Hurricane Irene and we explored the true size of the Stone Mountain carving.
September
Google Earth 6.1 was released, bringing some nice new KML features with it. We also looked at the past, present and future of the World Trade Center complex in New York on the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
October
Peter Olsen created an excellent 3D model of the MLK National Memorial and Google Earth reached the one billion download milestone.
November
We took an early look at the 2012 London Olympic venues and enjoyed the cool new Fluid Nebula tool for Google Earth.
December
We played with Google Earth on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and saw a new island being formed in the Red Sea by a volcano.
It's been another amazing year for Google Earth. What was your favorite story of the year?
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December 23, 2011
Tracking Santa's journey in Google Earth
Starting around 2am EST tonight, Santa's journey will begin and NORAD will once again be tracking his every move!
His journey will be tracked using a variety of methods including satellites, radar and fighter jets.
You can view the main Santa tracker here
. Unfortunately, it only runs in the Google Earth plugin in your browser (not in the desktop version of Google Earth), and you can't make it full screen so you are stuck with a smaller image. It would also be nice if you could view it on your tablet version of Google Earth. But, read on for other ways to follow his journey throughout the day.
Here's a "behind the scenes" video from Google's Bruno Bowden on the origins of the NORAD Santa Tracker:
There are a lot of great ways to follow him on his journey, thanks to the folks at NORAD and some help from Google:
• Watch his progress on Google Maps. Visit noradsanta.org to see a map of his location and his next scheduled stop.
• Watch him fly by using the Google Earth Plug-in. Visit the "Track in Google Earth" page to watch Santa fly by using the Google Earth Plug-in. The past few years I fired up this page on my netbook, placed it up on the mantle, and we kept a close eye on Santa all day long.
• New this year; follow Santa with OnStar. If you have a GM car with OnStar, you'll be able to push the OnStar button and get an update on Santa's location (more info).
• Follow his progress on your phone. Search for [santa] in Google Maps for Mobile, or visit m.noradsanta.org from your phone to track his progress while you're on the go.
• Follow him on other services, such as his YouTube channel, Twitter account and Facebook Page.
Having NORAD track Santa has been a tradition for decades, and using Google Earth/Maps to track him has quickly become a popular tradition of its own. Millions of people track Santa using these fun new methods, with more joining in every year. Have fun!
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December 22, 2011
Giant Santas in Google Street View
With Christmas just a few days away, there are a variety of Christmas-themed maps and games popping up. A few days ago, Google Sightseeing showcased a variety of giant Santas that can be found in Google StreetView. You can grab this KML file to view them in Google Earth
There's also a site that creates a custom animated Christmas message, showing snow on top of a Street View image of your house, or you can take it further and have a short movie created with your Street View imagery, along with photos that you upload. (both via Google Maps Mania)
Check back tomorrow for details on how to track Santa's progress on Christmas Eve!
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December 21, 2011
Using Google Earth in the classroom
Since the earliest days of Google Earth, many have viewed it as an amazing tool to use in the classroom - and they're right! We first showed some educational uses for Google Earth more than five years ago, and since then we've seen great uses from Duke University and StrataLogica, among others.
Today we're looking at GEteach, a site developed by 9th-grade Geography teacher Josh Williams. The site uses the Google Earth Plug-in to give you quick access to a wide variety of information such as the CIA Factbook, population densities, and various other human and physical geographic overlays.
The site also includes a "Two Earth" mode to allow you to view different layers side-by-side, similar to AnotherEarth. This is a great way to show students how natural aspects of the earth can affect human behavior, such as comparing the "vegetation" index to the "population density", as seen here:
I asked Josh for more info about how the site got started, and he came through with the full story of the site, shared below:
My major is Geography and like most people I've always been intrigued with Google Earth. For the past 6 years I've been trying to find ways to incorporate Google Earth in my 9th grade geography classroom. At first I scoured the internet for kml files that worked with my curriculum, but very little seemed to fit. Three years ago I started creating Earth's with simple placemarks of images and maybe some text within the balloons. I later found an interesting script allowing me to export ESRI shapefiles into kml. This was the turning point that led to what you see today. My first useful Google Earth file was an Earth where I incorporated CIA Factbook data into balloons. I later created dozens of thematic Earths using the same process. My students currently use improved versions of these thematic maps to observe, understand, and predict levels of development for regions and countries.
Two years ago I stumbled across NASA's Earth Observatory website and discovered how they wrapped their images around an Earth. I then used that process and NASA's content to show mostly physical geographic patterns and processes. The images from NASA like blue marble, average land temperature, plant growth, sea temperatures, and topography are great at showing the students Earth/Sun relationships, climate controls, and physical processes impacted on population distributions (NASA Earth Observatory has a nice population density map).
Over the past year and a half I have been trying to put all of these Earths together in a package teachers and students could use. I quickly realized that creating a website using Google Earth api would be the most efficient way to control and distribute the content. Over that past year I have learned a little html, JavaScript, css, and jquery. I started first with embedding a webpage with Google Earth gadget files. As I learned more about html and JavaScript I ditched the gadget and created simple webpages with using the api. Nystrom then came by our school to demo Stratalogica (a great Google Earth tool for education). I thought I was going to be able to stop developing my webpage, but realized that I could not get my content on their page. After seeing Stratalogica, I spoke with my father and told him I thought we could create a really cool website available to everyone. We spent a year building geteach. The Google Earth side was pretty easy. We just went to the Google Earth api site and combined several of their demos like "Hello Earth," "China Syndrome," "Fetch kml," ect... Creating and incorporating menus, iframe shims, creating and replacing iframes to change with the selected Earth (they hold the Earth's descriptions, map legends/keys, and credits), and creating a really cool array were more challenging and took a while to learn; especially because my father and I had to learn or relearn most of this. Today's geteach.com is really the 4th version. The first version had a very 2004 look and feel to it. It had ugly generic drop down menus, check boxes, and radio buttons. Version one only had about 6 Earths, but the core functions like choosing different Earths, fetching an Earth, and controlling the left or right earth were all present and working. Version two replaced all the generic forms and buttons with jquery ui buttons. We added an array which allowed more Earths. Version four changed from a table based to a div based html document that allowed the width to adjust with differing resolutions. However, the most time consuming aspect in creating geteach.com is attempting to make it look similar across browsers.
This is the first school year where my students and I have extensively used the website. The first lesson we used geteach.com for was Earth/Sun relations. This is mostly me using Google Earth's grid layer and sun feature to show the solstice and equinox. I then click to the multi-earth and demonstrate how temperature and vegetation is impacted by this relationship. The students' next big lesson is identifying climate regions and the climate controls. Here the students use the climate regions Earth on the left side and change the right Earth to help develop an understanding of what climate controls like elevations, wind currents, ocean currents, latitude, position on the continent, etc. are responsible for the temperature and precipitation patterns. Next the students use level of development indicators like life expectancy, GDP per capita, infant mortality rate, etc. to predict standard of living for regions and countries. Our district curriculum blends regional with conceptual geography. Therefore, with every unit/region (every 3 to 4 weeks) either my students, time permitting, or I will use geteach.com to observe physical and human patterns of the new region and start making spatial observations and peaking curiosity for the unit. It is really a lot of fun and truly why I created this site in the first place. My goal is for students to expend some of their bandwidth on spatial observations, understandings, and predicting. When they ask, "Mr. Williams...why is..?" I know I have them where I want them.
It's a phenomenal way to use Google Earth in a classroom setting, and he has done an awesome job with this site. Great work, Josh!
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December 20, 2011
Visualizing Google Analytics data in Google Earth
Introduced six years ago, Google Analytics has quickly become one of the most popular stat-tracking packages around. Many websites, including Google Earth Blog, use it to see which pages on their site are the most popular, how visitors find them, where they come from, etc. It's quite powerful.
When you have software that can show a list of where the visitors to your site are located, it only makes sense to want to view that data in Google Earth. That's where ShufflePoint comes in. Along with a variety of dashboards and charts, ShufflePoint allows you to view your data in Google Maps or Google Earth, as seen here:
To try it for yourself, they have a sample KML file for you to try out, as well as the video below to show more about how it works:
If you use Google Analytics and need a way to better visualize your data, ShufflePoint is certainly something to consider. Prices start at $49/month, presumably for a single site. You can learn more about ShufflePoint on the Google Geo Developers Blog.
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December 19, 2011
Help keep Google Earth accurate with the improved Map Maker tool
A little over three years ago, Google introduced "Map Maker" to allow people to make updates to Google Maps and Google Earth. You could mark businesses as being closed, move their pins around, edit information, add roads, etc. It's quite a useful tool.
Now Google has updated Map Maker to make it even more powerful and easy to use.
Not only will your updates appear on Google Maps and Google Earth (after they're approved by a Google staff member), but they'll also appear on Google Maps Mobile -- and that's very important. With the growing popularity of Google Navigation on Android, accurate maps are a necessity. This also shows why Google Navigation is so wildly popular; rather than getting yearly updates (for $99) like a Garmin device, you get access to maps that are updated daily for free!
Here's a quick video showing everything you can do with it:
I've made quite a few small contributions on Google Map Maker, and you're encouraged to do the same. Hopefully the new changes to Map Maker will help make your task even easier.
Have you added anything to Map Maker in the past? Do you plan to now?
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December 16, 2011
Google Earth on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Back in May, Google Earth for Android was updated with 3D building support on tablets. Despite the additional load of the 3D buildings, the software continued to run remarkably smoothly and continues to be an amazing way to view Google Earth.
At the time, the 3D buildings didn't show up on phones; it wasn't even an option. However, on the Galaxy Nexus the 3D buildings are in there and they look great!
There was no update to Google Earth recently, and the buildings still aren't available on my old phone (a Motorola Droid X), so presumably Google Earth looks at the hardware on your phone before presenting you with that option. If so, that seems like a wise move. Here is what the options panel looks like on the Galaxy Nexus:
I don't know what the minimal specs are offhand, but a dual-core processor seems like a good place to start. The Google Earth page in the Android market simply says "select phones", so I don't have a full list of compatible phones yet. As another added bonus, Google Earth came preinstalled on the phone; I'm quite sure that was not the case on the Droid X.
With the large, stunningly high screen resolution on the Galaxy Nexus (1280x720), Google Earth looks simply brilliant. More phones of this quality and beyond will be coming in 2012, which will make the mobile Google Earth experience even better.
Leave a comment and let us know if your phone supports 3D buildings in Google Earth and we'll begin compiling a list. Thanks!
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December 15, 2011
Increasingly high-resolution imagery in Antarctica
As Google has continually improved the quality of their imagery across the globe, one area always seemed to stay low-res -- Antarctica. Thanks to the help of the Polar Geospatial Center (PCG), that's beginning to change.
A great example of that is the Mackay Glacier Tongue, located in Granite Harbor, seen here:
You can see it for yourself, as shown in the article, using this KML file.
So far, the PGC has helped Google update nearly 1,000,000 square kilometers, with another 275,000 square kilometers added every three months. While it will take a while to get the entire continent updated (more than 14,000,000 sq km), they're certainly making great progress.
Along with updating the quality of the imagery, they're also working to improve the accuracy of the location of the imagery. The PGC's Paul Morin will be heading down to the Antarctic Peninsula soon to help improve the imagery from being off by as much as 30 meters to being accurate within a single meter.
The full article at The Antarctic Sun is quite interesting and well worth your time to read. We all enjoy the constantly improving imagery quality in Google Earth, and the PGC is just one of many companies working with Google to help move things forward.
(via @OgleEarth)
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December 14, 2011
Google reorganizes the "Ocean" Layer
As Google continues to add more content to the various Layers in Google Earth, they often take time to reorganize things a little bit. This time it's the "Ocean" layer that's been somewhat shifted around.
In particular:
• Some items have been moved to the Earth Gallery, including the "Marie Tharp Historical Map", "MBA: Seafood Watch", "MCS: Fish to Eat", "Human Impacts", "Arctic Sea Ice", "Sea Surface Temperature" and "Ocean Expeditions".
• The "ARKive: Endangered Ocean Species" layer is now turned on by default, and shown as purple circles on the globe.
• "Ocean Observations" has been moved to the [Weather] folder.
In all, it's a nice group of changes. It seems that Google has tried to simplify the [Ocean] layer quite a bit to make it easier for new users to dig in. I'm not sure how many people use the [Earth Gallery] feature, but perhaps this will encourage more people to check it out.
What do you think about these changes?
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December 13, 2011
Historical Street View imagery for Japan
One of the neatest features added to Google Earth in the past few years is the Historical Imagery added in Google Earth 5. Being able to go back in time and few older imagery is such a neat thing to do.
Now that Google is starting to roll out fresh Street View imagery around the world, we're getting a glimpse of a somewhat similar feature in there. There's two parts to this:
First, Google has created a special "Build the Memory" site for imagery in Japan, allowing you to see before and after shots of towns affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
It's not a full-fledged "historical" view, since it's only for Japan, but it's a very neat way to see that imagery.
The also added the oft-requested feature of putting dates on the Street View imagery. It's been a fun game to try to determine when imagery was captured, but now they tell you the month and year right on the imagery while you're viewing it!
The dates don't appear when you're using Street View inside of Google Earth, but I would expect that'll be coming in a future update.
You can read more about these updates on the Google Lat Long Blog.
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The ultimate Liquid Galaxy - 48 screens!
The "Liquid Galaxy" is a very fun way to explore Google Earth. Surrounded by eight screens, it really immerses you in the product. You can even try something similar at home by using the "Fluid Nebula" app.
But what happens when you want to go beyond just eight screens? Why not jump to 48 screens? That's what Google recently did in Paris, and it's something to see.
While it doesn't surround you like the original Liquid Galaxy does, using Google Earth on a 40 square meter screen (made up of nearly 100 million pixels) has to be amazing! As they point out in the Google Lat Long Blog, this display is made even better by the brand new high-resolution imagery that was released in Paris last week.
Google also made a neat time-lapsed video of the installation of the Liquid Galaxy. Because each display is powered by an individual computer, there are a lot of cables that need to be run. It's a fun little video to watch.
I'm hoping that they bring it out to Where 2.0 next year, but it's likely a bit too bulky for that. :)
Along with the Liquid Galaxy, there are a variety of other great ways to interact with Google Earth. My favorite is undoubtedly the 3dConnexion SpaceNavigator. Awesome device. However, you can also use Google Earth by flying with your iPhone, surfing with your Wii, or using a joystick to control the Flight Simulator.
*Have you ever had a chance to play with any of the Liquid Galaxy set-ups that Google has in place?*
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December 12, 2011
Google Earth Blog now available on Google Currents
As you may have seen, Google introduced Google Currents last week, a magazine-style app for Android and iOS devices to give you an easy way to keep up with the news.
While it took me a few days to get into it, I'm now finding Google Currents to be great! Things don't update as quickly as Google Reader (or Twitter, Facebook, etc), but it's nice to kick back in the evening and flip through some items on there. If you're finding it useful as well, perhaps you'll want to add the Google Earth Blog: Currents Edition to your device. Just search for "Google Earth Blog" inside of Currents to add us to your device.
Of course, you can also find us on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. In addition, you can always get our posts via RSS or by getting e-mail updates.
Have you tried out Google Currents yet? If so, what do you think of it?
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December 9, 2011
Awesome 3D tours of Mount Urgull in San Sebastian
Last year, we showed you some incredible 3D models in Spain built by Peterg Pedro Domecq, otherwise known as 'Gipuzkoa3d'. He's back again with some more excellent models, this time with a great tool to show them off.
Urgull is a hill in the heart of San Sebastian, Spain, and was a defense point in the 12th century, with walls and military structures installed in the 16th centry. It also saw some action in various wars in 1813, 1823, 1836 and 1876. The city council now owns it.
When you visit Urgull3D, you'll find quite a few ways to explore the area. There are options down the right side to fly you to various aspects of it; clicking the name will fly you there, and checking the box will display the clickable icon on the map for more info.
Even better, you can use the links at the very top of the page to view historical maps (standard historical imagery), adjust the time of day (sunlight), and get a few smooth tours of the area. Go check it out, as it's a great way to explore the area!
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December 8, 2011
View your Google Latitude history in Google Earth
If you use Google Latitude, you've likely tried to view your travels in Google Earth. However, when you go into Latitude to export it, you'll find that it only can do a single day at a time. Fortunately, Don Barker of GIS-Elektrika has posted a very simple workaround.
When exporting to KML, the URL that it generates contains a "startTime" and "endTime". By manually adjusting those numbers, you can get a whole range of dates in a single file! Don advises that you just enter some lower random numbers to make it happen, but the Ask Metafilter post that started this idea has some additional tips.
Do you use Google Latitude? I have it enabled on my phone, but tend to use Foursquare more often. Still, the potential of Latitude is quite amazing, and it'll be interesting to see what Google does with it in the future.
Great tip, Don!
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December 7, 2011
New Google Earth Imagery - December 7
Google Earth has just rolled out some fresh imagery for us! Thanks to GEB reader 'Andreas' for being the first to let us know about it.
As is almost always the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area is fresh. This new imagery isn't in Google Maps yet, so you can compare Earth vs. Maps to see what's new; the fresh imagery is already in Google Earth, but the old imagery is still in Google Maps. If you compare the two side-by-side and they're not identical, that means that you've found a freshly updated area in Google Earth!
[UPDATED -- 7-December, 8:22am EST]
- France: Demigny, Paris -- thanks 'Andreas'
- Germany: Angermunde, Delmenhorst -- thanks 'Andreas'
- India: Chennai
- Norway: Jorpeland -- thanks 'Andreas'
- Romania: Oradea -- thanks 'bogdan'
- Spain: Barcelona
- Thailand: Ratchaburi -- thanks 'Andy'
- United States: Arkansas (Pine Bluff), Georgia (Athens)
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
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December 6, 2011
Where in the world? A great quiz from the Atlantic.
The Atlantic just ran a fun article with a Google Earth quiz as part of it. The quiz is multiple choice, but still quite difficult. Can you identify the location of various aerial imagery from across the globe?
Go take the quiz and leave a comment with your score below!
If you enjoy this kind of puzzle, be sure to check out PlaceSpotting.com for many more quizzes like that. The entries on PlaceSpotting are more difficult because you aren't given multiple choice options, but that makes it more rewarding when you get one right.
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December 5, 2011
Every Basketball Court in Manhattan
Artist Jenny Odell has just released her newest creation, "Every Basketball Court in Manhattan", using imagery from Google Earth. I'm certainly no art critic, but it's undoubtedly a very creative way to showcase this kind of imagery.
From Jenny:
My series of satellite prints is a collection of collections, in that each print houses a selection of things cut out from Google Satellite View--whether that be swimming pools, parking lots or sections of the Great Salt Lake. Though geographically they represent a vast (and fragmented) amount of landscape, the collections carry with them the feelings of smallness, vulnerability and nostalgia that I find inherent in satellite imagery.
These prints are, on the one hand, collapsed pictures of my own disoriented wanderings through the endlessness of a scanned world--endlessly scrolling, endlessly zooming in. But they are also, as in any collection, acts of love. In accumulating, cutting out and ordering each piece of satellite imagery, I have fixed them here against the perpetual tide of updated satellite pictures and the ephemerality of the internet.
For more about this piece of art, you can check out this page on 20x200.com. Jenny has also created a variety of other artwork using stadiums, buildings, parking lots and additional items. You can see her full collection here.
If you have ideas about creating similar artwork, be sure to check with Google before you get started as it's illegal to print and sell artwork like this without permission. Google has a support page available for you to view for more information.
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December 2, 2011
The Immortal Game of chess in 1851
A few days ago we showed you the excellent tour of James Cook's circumnavigation of New Zealand that Colin Hazlehurst put together. Colin is back with another neat file, this one from the "Immortal Game" of chess.
1851 was the year of the Great Exhibition in London (England not Ontario). The chess community marked the event by staging the first international chess tournament which brought in the best players of Europe.
An exciting game played during the event became tagged 'The Immortal Game'. The opponents were Adolf Anderssen, the eventual winner of the tournament, and Lionel Kieseritsky. If Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, had not already given his name to a type of battle in which victory was gained despite incurring heavy losses, then we might today have used the name of Anderssen with the same meaning, for he sacrificed many pieces to get one bishop and two knights into a winning position.
Anderssen was much the more aggressive player but the rate of attrition was high. He lost a pawn early on when his King's Gambit was accepted. Then a bishop fell, and another pawn, then both castles. Finally, he forced checkmate by sacrificing his queen even while Kieseritsky thought he was doing well to have Anderssen's king on the run as his queen and a bishop controlled row 1 of the board.
So, why the animation in Google Earth? Colin said:
"I imagined the game as a battle between two armies, that's easy enough to do, but I also wanted to tell a story. As well as being fun to create, the animation is intended to illustrate not only the chess game but also a story in which an embedded reporter watches the raging battle and the bloodshed all around from the position of the King's Pawn. I've written a short story which now forms the bones of a longer novel.
It took a while to find the right place on Earth to set the battle. I needed high ground as defensive positions for Kieseritsky and a landscape that would match the story. I found this in the mountains and valleys of the English Lake District, one of my favourite places and destination of many camping trips.
I created the chess pieces using Google SketchUp and that was a fun exercise in itself. I exported the pieces from SketchUp as 3D models which I could then place and animate in Google Earth. The latest version uses the gx:Tour features of KML; previously I had animated the game using set positions after each move, but that doesn't flow so well. I'm pleased with the way the pieces now glide over the ground."
You can view it yourself in Google Earth by using this KML file.
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December 1, 2011
NORAD Tracks Santa goes live for 2011
As they've done for the past few years, the incredibly popular NORAD Santa site is now live for 2011. Each year the site tracks Santa's journey around the world on Christmas Eve, and the site is now live in preparation for the holiday.
As always, the tracker itself won't be live until December 24. However, they have a variety of new games on the site each day in the "Countdown Village" that are fun to play with your kids; for example, the game today is a puzzle to help you string lights up on a virtual Christmas tree.
NORAD (and its predecessor, CONAD) have been tracking Santa every year since 1955. The addition of tools such as Google Earth and social media sites like Twitter and Facebook have only served to help increase the spread the of this fun tradition. To keep up with the latest happenings from the North Pole, you can join their Facebook Page (with a remarkable 716,000 fans) or follow them on twitter at @NoradSanta.
My girls will certainly be following along this year, as they had a great time watching him last year. How about you? Did you follow along last year with your kids? Looking forward to doing it again?
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