Reflections on using mobile GPS with young informal vendors in urban Tanzania

This paper will explore how mobile‐based GPS methods can advance insights into young itinerant vendors' informal livelihood mobilities. It examines the practicalities of using a GPS‐based method in a Majority World context whilst also discussing the merits of combining this approach with mobile methods. The ethical issues of using GPS technology ‘on the move’, and the impact that my presence had whilst I accompanied participants, is also discussed.