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December 14th, 2007 | by lissie |I have been doing it a fair bit of writing over at HubPages and have published another Flagship Hub this one about GPS Receivers. I must say it’s a reasonable amount of work for $25 but I only do the topics I am interested in and most times learn something which is of use to me anyway! So if you are planning on buying someone a GPS for Christmas or even just sometime in the future - please follow that link By following it you will help be to earn a bonus of $10 if I get enough traffic in the first month. Of course if you want to buy something from Amazon or EBay (doesn’t have to be a GPS - just click through on the link) that would be even better! So even you aren’t planning on buying follow the link - please?
I actually first used a GPS back on an exploration job in Chile in the early 90’s and I was amazed at the time even that even with the woeful standard of the local maps we could safely navigate all over the featureless plane of the Atacama knowing a) whether we were inside our exploration lease and b) where the road was to get back to camp! It was the first time I had ever heard of a GPS and the only reason we had was because the boss was a yachty and they had become popular in the marine world for obvious reasons.
On out trip around Australia we did carry a cheap little unit - knowing the state of the outback roads I thought it might be useful. It was once, we had to some tricky navigation in outback Queensland heading towards Innaminka doing lots of turns to various roads which all led to stations. The danger in this sort of country was not so much dying alone in the desert - but running out of fuel if we went too badly astray was a real possibility - so the GPS was a good double check, which easied the tension when we argued about the turns - though what the driver was doing arguing with the navigator I have no idea!
Typically with technology the prics have come right down - the little unit we have we bought for about NZ$80 last year, the unit we had in Chile was top of the line and worth many $100’s of dollars at the time - maybe NZ$800 in today’s $. They both had about the same functionality! So that link again: GPS Receivers
