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Personal GPS equipment, 2007

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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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Melanie Lovell-Smith, Modern mapping and surveying – Later developments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18920/personal-gps-equipment-2007 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Melanie Lovell-Smith, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 August 2018.