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And that's it for Santa!

Ok, so I'll reveal a couple of things.

Someone in the comments said this:

Google calls it Nur-Sultan, but the Kazakhstan government changed the name to Astana in 2019, fun geography facts.

Guess why Google didn't update the name to Astana?

Because the Santa path hasn't been changed since 2019!

Later, when Santa was around Papua New Guinea, I found out that you could fetch the route information, including all future cities. And guess what? The arrival and departure times for the locations... they were Unix timestamps for Christmas 2019.

Also, in the end, Santa gives out 7.7 billion gifts... which was the approximate world population in 2018/2019, but the current world population is 8 billion and counting.

And, Santa's path is available, if you look closely in the browser console, you'll see a request that lists the exact route Santa will take, the departure time, the arrival time, the image urls, all that.

So, I made this map, of Santa's path, before Santa was finished travelling. It's at
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1GJNCL30f8LXZcc6vM7UgeoJ3DVI_IW8&usp=sharing

I'm a bit disappointed to see that the path hasn't been changed since 2019... guess we wouldn't have this market next Christmas.

@bohaska
/Kable/will-the-2024-google-santa-tracker

@bohaska Yea I spent 8.5 hours straight adding answers and resolving answers, and than the market died. Spent my whole 500 mana profit on answers lol. I was hoping for more fun.

@bohaska Strangely, the ID that Google gave for Nur-Sultan is "astana"...

No new cities 😭

@SirCryptomind It got boring at some point and I wandered off and did other things. It was too predictable.

@SirCryptomind I would be adding more but I need old ones resolved so I can afford it.

gg

Google calls it Nur-Sultan, but the Kazakhstan government changed the name to Astana in 2019, fun geography facts.

I spelled the Kunming, China wrong. I had Kunkming, China. I Fixed it.

notes:
if an option has been traded very low and Santa has already went through the area the city is in, feel free to resolve NO, especially if there are too many options

@bohaska To be sure, make sure Santa is at least very far to the west of the location you are resolving NO on, he zig zags around quite a bit sometimes going over the same area again after crossing it in one direction.

Hm, I don't think Mt. Fuji is technically a city, town, or village, even though there are people around its base. Oshino Hakkai, for example, is a national monument. This is what @bohaska clarified below:

Anywhere inhabited and which is a city/town/village will resolve. If it's not inhabited, resolves NO.

However, maybe this quote from the criteria is in conflict with that:

If the place where Santa stopped over is not listed as a city but is inhabited, resolves YES.

@Jacy My honest opinion is that it doesn't really matter and that whatever makes everyone happy is what I would do and that I should have wrote "places" instead of "cities"

I am basically putting my profits right back into adding cities 😂

@SirCryptomind Thank you for the hard work!

Reasoning: Santa already stopped at Chichijima Island before this option was submitted

@bohaska I also got confused, and Ogasawara Village might not actually be on Chichijima, but on a different island nearby.

Start New Proof Here (The other one is buried now lol)

@SirCryptomind

Should we keep posting proofs for most of the stops? For quite a few it'll be obvious by them being bid up to 99.X percent and the previous stops. I'm just thinking about Manifold image bandwidth costs at this point :P

@Fedor True, probably will lag this market too eventually.

If it is 99% Ill double check if @bohaska is not resolving at that time and do it myself.
Can just type out the name and country in comments too i guess, but that is a bit of extra work too and alot of comments possibly.

@SirCryptomind I will go offline soon, hopefully you can keep up the market.

Also, lag wouldn't be as big as an issue as it was for POTY markets, because this is separate options. If 100 options are on a big market that all sum to 100%, they all have to be updated for every single bet, but for this, only one option has to be updated per bet.

@SirCryptomind I will post a searchable map of the track Google Santa Tracker took after all the places have been released, with icons for each city.

1. The second-level address should always be a country, not a city

2. He already left Saipan

@bohaska Thanks for that, fixed the others.

So he visited Hagåtña, United States (In Guam). So that could resolve yes.