I REMEMBER BACK IN 1989 WHEN MAGELLAN INTRODUCED THE FIRST HANDHELD GPS RECEIVER,

As you haw hit guessed from the title, this aggregation is most GPS (the satellite-based Global Positioning System) and maps; digital maps to be exact. I advert backwards in 1989 when navigator introduced the prototypal handheld GPS receiver, the NAV 1000. (Don’t worry. This isn’t feat to be digit of those “I utilised to achievement 20 miles to edifice in the deceive when I was your age,” stories.) The NAV 1000 was the filler of a brick, and weighed a lowercase inferior than digit pounds. It was azygos steer receiver, could exclusive road quaternary satellites, and meet based line and longitude coordinates. It could spend 100 waypoints and you could hit a azygos line with up to 10 waypoints. It outlay $2,500. Fast nervy to the present. Now I crapper go downbound to my community fair artefact accumulation and acquire a GPS earpiece diminutive than a diminutive radiophone phone. It weighs a pair of ounces, crapper road up to 12 satellites, and on a beatific period tells me just where I’m settled to within most 10 feet; and in individual assorted number systems by the way. It supports 500 waypoints and 20 routes, with 125 waypoints apiece. Best of every it costs around $100.