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But when these fail us, and there's no-one to ask for directions, there's a more natural way to navigate, says Tristan Gooley. It's not every week that a massive solar flare knocks out the GPS network, but all it takes is a flat battery or a mechanical fault to hobble your automated orientation aids. TV Guide UK TV Listings - UK's No 1 TV Listing site for Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat & Tiscali TV. Behind the scenes: NORAD's Santa tracker. Editor's note: This story originally ran in 2009.
In the spirit of the holidays, we thought we'd run this touching piece again. On a recent Christmas Eve, Jeff Martin found himself forced to explain to a Canadian general why, when Santa Claus passed through Toronto that night, Google Maps had placed the city in the United States. Martin, then a senior marketing manager in Google's Geo group, was part of a huge team of people involved in the joint U.S. -Canada North American Aerospace Defense Command's annual NORAD Santa tracker program, a long-running effort to provide children the world over a live view of Santa's progress as he and his reindeer deliver Christmas presents. Free Old Movies, Classic Movies, Black and White Movies.
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