GEROCS4EVR
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Reged: 12/14/05
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OK - Christmas is about the celebration of the birth of Christ. However, that fat jolly guy in the red suit is what attracts the attention of the little ones.
So - how can I make something so that GEarth will show the travels of Santa Claus? If you've never been to NoradSanta.org on Christmas eve, you are missing a really cool presentation. But it would be so much better in GEarth - especially for my granddaughter, Grace, who will be with us this Christmas. (Grace loves "the world" on my computer - so much that her parents had to uninstall GEarth on their own computer because Grace learned how to open it. Grace is five years old!)
How could something be built that will refresh every 15 or 20 minutes, moving to another area of the globe, with a photo of a local Santa (Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, et .al.) and a short story about the culture of the country that Santa is 'visiting' at that time?
I'm sure it would be more that a kmz file, so that takes a project like this out of my abilities. But when I see GEWar armies moving, and jewels being planted at random, all by some remote server, then I know that someone can incorporate Santa's travels on December 24/25 into a great GEarth presentation.
I've done a Google search for "Santa Claus"+"Google Earth" and nobody has done this yet - I think it would be extremely cool. And Grace would have yet another reason to think that her Grandpa is the best Grandfather on earth!
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bigpete87
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Reged: 07/27/05
Posts: 36
Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA
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i was thinkin the samething about that cyber santa claus goin around the world. that would be cool.
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GEROCS4EVR
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Reged: 12/14/05
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But how would you do it?
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echodawg
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Reged: 10/20/05
Posts: 106
Loc: bet you can't guess! ; )
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Have you tried to e-mail norad from the link on the santa site?
I did the other day but have gotten no response yet.(I was hopeing to slip it in before someone else mentioned it)
Anyway maybe if a few of us sent similar requests we may get a responce.
Maybe if a GE rep made the request it would help.
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PenguinOpus
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Reged: 12/07/02
Posts: 1938
Loc: Bay Area, CA, USA
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Actually, Google Earth didn't exist last year, so... Keyhole+Santa might have found something. There was a Santa radar last year, this year is still in discussion (it's a matter of scale  ).
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Valery35
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Reged: 09/02/05
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Loc: Russia, Perm, Sun
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PenguinOpus
Sysop, Emeritus
Reged: 12/07/02
Posts: 1938
Loc: Bay Area, CA, USA
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For those thinking about attempting this... I will be doing something this year. Scale/volume is a big issue (as we discovered last year), but I think we have a plan.
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Jator
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Reged: 11/16/05
Posts: 5
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I often email noradsanta staff and get responces particulary from a canadian major but dont do the AOL thing you end up talking to someone from india who has no idea what your talking about
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Appletom
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Reged: 07/13/05
Posts: 4
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Quote:
For those thinking about attempting this... I will be doing something this year. Scale/volume is a big issue (as we discovered last year), but I think we have a plan.
Mr. Penguin, I would be delighted to see this file. I made an identical request on Google Earh Hacks ( http://www.googleearthhacks.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21446#post21446 ) on December 13, one day before GEROCS4EVR asked here. It's kind of cool, both GEROCS4EVR and I have grandaughters named Grace.
Anyway, this would be the greatest thing ever, I would love to see the Tracking_Santa.kmz file.
Thanks,
Jim
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Frank4
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Reged: 07/10/05
Posts: 1024
Loc: Cary, North Carolina, USA
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On a related note, read my entry today for Santa's Route in Google Earth.
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