What are some different uses for GPS?

What are some different uses for GPS?
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If you want to tear the bottom out of a ship, you can set a course that ignores shoal water and rocks, and attempt to sail straight through. Marine GPS systems don’t follow navigation “roads”. You need to manually program in way points that can be traveled to in a straight line. (And you have to set the way points a bit “off” the channel markers, or you’ll run into them.)
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