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Munich Orientation Convention in Addis Abeba Google mapplet

Addis Abeba has the option to be world's first city that has realized an international orientation standard, an idea from a Munichian inventor to simplify and harmonize worldwide all orientation means: signage, cartography, navigation devices and verbal expressions.

Within this city, it is (will be) possible to find any target with easy brain work, that means

- without maps,	- without names,
- without illogical numbers	- without arrows
- without floor marks	- without square grids
- without colors	- without compass or other navigation devices

Buildings, crossings, stop points, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

German Embassy	StatusQuo© ADAB	m1 r39
UN Economical Commission for Africa		m1:1 r7
City Hall		m11:4 r29
Menelik II hospital		m12:12 r35
Bole international airport		m4 r55
Addis Alem		m9:44 r400

which are easy to understand if you associate the city with a clock as follows:

Around the Meskel square, the so-called pole m0,

the horizon is divided in 12 "horizon hours"

m1 to m12

whereas m12 points to north. This divides the city as a cake in 12 imaginary sectors.

The sectors are divided in horizon minutes. These are not angles but DISTANCES to the horizon hour, in steps of approx one "block of houses" or 100 meters.

Example: m3:5

( read "emm 3 point five" or "emm three five" ).

This is a line situated in a distance of 5 x 100m from the horizon hour m3, which points to sunrise.

The convention for horizon minutes is very easy:

the greater, the later.

Considering the distance to m0 as r = radius also in steps of blocks of houses, logical position codes for targets, buildings, crossings etc. come into existence, e. g. as shown on the picture:

crossing StatusQuo© ADAB m12:13 r36

In simple words:

"r" is a numbering starting FROM m0,

"m" is a north-direction-based numbering AROUND m0

and this simple methode covers a gigantic market gap:

l o g i c a l and easy understandable p o s i t i o n codes.

Natural Cartography©:

a map with such a polar grid has innovative characteritics, see www.volksnav.com/map . Please be aware about the fact that if the target isn't on map, with the help of the logical position code it's possible to imagine where it is situated !!

Interesting details:

- the search grid contains quadrangules similar to the conventional ones. The picture above shows a green quadrangule with the dimensions 500 m x 500 m. The bended sides let know in which direction the urban pole is situated, even if the centre isn't on map.

- the width of the sector is half the radius !! Example: m12:10 r20, m12:20 r40 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m12:5 r20

Orientators©, the signage of the future

StatusQuo© addresses will be integrated within the existing signage, see www.volksnav.com/lollipop, or be indicated on so-called Orientators©.

Vertical Pointing©: additional to the position information, a round symbol called center pointer will be placed on their periphery to allow to detect the direction m0 according to the following conventions:

if the pointer is placed	on top (f12)	m0 will be	in front of you (f12)
	on bottom (f6)		behind (f6)
	right hand (f3)		right hand (f3)

etc. Acc. to the same convention, a square symbol points to north = m12.

The picture on right hand reveils: m12 is behind, the m0 is right hand.

Orientator©

Navigation / VolksNav©:

The local navigation with the help of such codes is called VolksNav©. As proceeded today with house numbers, VolksNav© is nothing else than the major/minor comparison between "r" and "m" values:

Simply proceed according to 1 -2 -3 :

1 -

Positioning

Turn your body until m0 will be BEHIND. In this position,

ahead	will be	outwards
right hand	"	to later (clockwise)
left hand	"	to earlier

etc.

Beginners have to turn physically, after some exercises anyone will be able to do this by his imagination power. In case you look at above shown Orientator©, you'd have to turn to left, correct?

2 -

r-comparison

Ask yourself:

must I move inwards or outwards?

( = is the target radius greater or smaller than the actual one?)

3 -

m-comparison

Ask yourself:

must I move to “later” (clockwise) or to earlier?

( = is the target m later or earlier than the actual one?)

Let's see an example:

Let's suppose, your target is: City Hall m11:4 r29

If you've lost orientation on named crossing m12:13 r36,

so you must go

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m11 is "earlier" than the actual m12 )

and

- inwards (radius r29 is less than actual r36 )

This may seem to be unfamiliar, but the orientation based on cardinal points is used for some thousand years and imaginary clocks are used by soldiers, boy scouts, pilots, blind people etc. for more than 100 years. On a real situation, VolksNav© can be learned within few minutes, that means, faster than the most seeking times.

Vision:

Mobile applications: Very soon also navigation devices and mobile phones will indicate such logical position codes and cardinal points, see www.volksnav.com/london.

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode will soon also be used

- indoor www.volksnav.com/deutschesmuseum

and

- within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Addis Abeba is

What is this good for? Just comparing the codes for example of Addis Abeba and

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of the Lower Valley of the Omo is "later" and farther to Munich than Addis Abeba, more exactly

:2175 - :1630 = 545 km later

r5345 - r5040 = 306 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 545 and 545+306 km.

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Lower Valley of the Omo / Addis Abeba (to earlier/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 1, see www.quovides.com