In 1985, Wild Heerbrugg AG entered a new surveying field, when it manufactured the Wild WM101 (and the dual-frequency version, the WM102) in partnership with the Magnavox Corporation.

The software was known as PoPS.

Magnavox was an electronics company based in Torrance, California, and is a GPS "pioneer".
In the early 1990s the Magnavox company was offered for sale, and the civilian GPS assets were purchased by the Leica company.

Since then, many different systems where introduced ......