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Munich Orientation Convention in Angkor

Angkor has the option to be world's first city that has introduced natural orientation tools, an idea from a Munichian inventor to simplify and harmonize worldwide all orientation means: signage, cartography, postal codes, 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, postal codes, house numbers etc. have logical addresses like

Phnom Bakheng StatusQuo© Angkor m10:10 r22

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

The Angkor Vat temple was (will be) defined as a pole m0.

Around this pole, the horizon is divided in 12 "horizon hours"

m1 to m12

, whereas m12 points to north.

Horizon hours are divided in horizon minutes. These are not angles but DISTANCES to the horizon hour, in steps of approx 100 yards or 100 meters.

Example : m3:25 ( read "emm three point 25" or "emm three 25" ).

This is a line situated in a distance of 25 x 100m from the horizon hour m3, which points to sunrise. The convention for horizon minutes is very simple: the greater, the later.

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

crossing StatusQuo© Angkor m8:25 r72

StatusQuo means "where you are". 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.

Other examples:

Bakong temple m4:15 r143

Dead Fish tower m6:15 r64

Siem Riap Angkor international airport m8:25 r60

Angkor Tuk Tuk m12:100 r228

Example on Wikimapia: Phnom Bakhang http://wikimapia.org/#lat=13.423977&lon=103.856464&z=14&l=5&m=a&v=2&show=/18949/Phnom-Bakheng

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 !! Example: Angkor Tuk Tuk

Signage:

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

Vertical Pointing©: additional to the position information, a round symbol called center or pole 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 reveils: m12 is behind (f6), the Angkor Vat is right hand (f3)

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 shown on picture:

If your target is: Dead Fish tower m6:15 r64

and you've lost orientation at crossing m8:25 r72,

so you must move

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m6 is "earlier" than m8 )

and

- inwards ( r64 is less than actual r72 )

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.

In a real situation, VolksNav© can be learned within few minutes, that means, faster than the most seeking times. Then you'll be able to navigate everywhere as elegant as around the Christus statue in Rio de Janeiro, where the idea of a quantified polar orientation and an orientation standard was born.

Vision:

Mobile applications:

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

You're invited to download the demo program for pocketPC with/without GPS from www.volksnav.com.

Indoor orientation: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor, see

www.volksnav.com/deutschesmuseum www.volksnav.com/airportMUC

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode can also be used on the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Angkor is:

Just comparing this code for example with

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of O Ta Yu is "earlier" and farther to Munich than Angkor, more exactly:

:2120 - :2105 = 15 km earlier

radius9085 - r9070 = 15 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is between 15 and 15+15 km

- for advanced users: acc. to www.quovides.com, the direction Angkor / O Ta Yu (outwards, to earlier) is QuoVides® 2.