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Personal GPS equipment, 2007

By the 2000s, GPS equipment had become lighter and more portable as well as more widely available. Here a tramper uses his GPS to find his way back to his tent.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Photograph by Jock Phillips

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Melanie Lovell-Smith. 'Modern mapping and surveying', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 27-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/modern-mapping-and-surveying/6/5/2