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February 2008 <ref>Some book. Some page</ref> By Alex Craft Man
has navigated the earth since the beginning of his existence
thousands of years ago. Simple early land navigation stems from
creating orientation reference points, such as: rivers,
mountains, and other landscape features. Navigation started out
strictly orally conveyed, but as navigation techniques evolved
with increasing complexity, orally conveyed navigation would not
suffice and thus maps were conceived. Cartographic
representations are still prevalent today and helped to lay the
foundation for modern navigation techniques, like electronic GPS
systems. "Some centuries ago, it was possible to achieve a
determination of your position on Earth which was almost as
accurate as with GPS – but only with time, craftsmanship and
significantly more complexity."  More than two centuries ago, it
was possible to very accurately pinpoint you