NORAD ready to track Santa Claus again   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.  In 2007, Google
signed on to the project as a technology partner, and since
then, it has been incorporating NORAD's data on Santa's
whereabouts into special 2D Google Maps and 3D Google Earth
representations.  And that's where the trouble began.  NORAD is
now actively tracking Santa, and it will