Oh yeah-
And now that I think on it, I read a news article today about Indonesia. Activists and indigenous in-land people in that area are mapping places out w/ GPS. A lot of clear-cutting and land grabbing going on over there for centuries, too. People living in these traditional places get labeled "squatters" overnight when the corporation pays for a land title w/ the govt. So they are using GPS as a way to legally record these ancestral lands before they all disappear- I guess the case being that this will help stop some of the land grabs.
IMO, British and other European colonization reared its ugly head all over the world centuries ago, and the system we are under (in different places) pretty much still has it's roots in this. They were able to almost break and conquer the Americas- Asia was hit hard too, but didn't get hit as bad as the Americas.