Introducing Radar the Elf | Maps Weblog

This vacation season, the Official NORAD Tracks Santa website is again and higher than ever, because of Radar the Elf. Radar is an AI-powered query and reply elf designed to reinforce your Santa monitoring expertise by answering questions on Santa and NORAD in 133 supported languages.

Radar the ElfSearch for the little Radar picture on the backside left of the NoradSanta.org website

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One of many standout options of Radar is its capability to translate textual content on the fly, permitting for seamless multilingual interactions. Whether or not you are asking about Santa’s present location or the historical past of NORAD’s Santa monitoring, Radar can present solutions in your most popular language.

Chat with RadarSamples of Radar’s responses in a number of languages

Radar additionally makes use of each indicated and saved language preferences, routinely translating messages based mostly on these preferences throughout classes. Which means that as soon as you have set your most popular language, and select to “permit cookies”, Radar will bear in mind it for future interactions, making your expertise much more customized. Even with out cookies, Radar will use the primary language chosen as the popular language with every new session.

Moreover, customers can change their language whereas chatting with Radar at any time. Ask the identical query in a number of languages and Radar will regulate accordingly, making certain you can change languages to one in all your preferences with none trouble.

With Radar the Elf, the NORAD Santa Tracker is extra accessible and user-friendly than ever earlier than. So, prepare to trace Santa in your most popular language and revel in a magical vacation season with NORAD and Microsoft Bing Maps. We’ve a number of pattern questions for Radar to get you began…





When will Santa be at my home?

It appears Santa usually arrives between 9 p.m. and midnight on Christmas Eve, however solely when youngsters are asleep!

How does Santa get all the way in which around the globe in only one night time?

NORAD intelligence studies point out that Santa doesn’t expertise time the way in which we do. Evidently Santa has this fashion of transcending time. We’ve estimated that he travels on the velocity of starlight!

So head over to the Official NORAD Tracks Santa website and meet Radar for your self and take a look at some questions like

  • The place is Santa now?
  • Does Santa ever get chilly?
  • Do reindeer eat cookies?

And be sure you return on December twenty fourth to see the place NORAD is monitoring Santa on the large night time!