Story: Modern mapping and surveying

Personal GPS equipment, 2007 (2nd of 2)

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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Photograph by Jock Phillips

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Melanie Lovell-Smith, 'Modern mapping and surveying - Later developments', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/18920/personal-gps-equipment-2007 (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Melanie Lovell-Smith, published 24 Nov 2008, updated 1 Aug 2018