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Munich Orientation Convention in Braunschweig

Braunschweig 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, postal codes 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

Places, buildings, crossings, bus stops, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

Messegelände StatusQuo© BSWG m6:5 r20

Verkehrsübungsplatz m12:15 r65

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

Around the Mayor house,

the centrum or pole m0,

the horizon is divided in 12 "horizon hours"

m1 to m12

whereas m12 points to north.

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

Example: m3:1

( read "emm three point one" or "emm three one" )

This is a line in a distance of 1 x 100m to the direction 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:

StatusQuo© m7:3 r13

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 For example: with the help of the position codes it is possible to imagine where the targets are situated even if they don't appear on map !

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 pointer will be placed on their periphery to allow to detect the direction m0 according to the following convention

if the pointer is placed	on top	m0 will be	in front of you
	on bottom		behind
	right hand		right hand

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

The picture reveils: m12 is behind, 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:

and you've lost orientation on crossing m7:3 r13,

so you must go

- outwards ( r20 is more than r13 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m6 is "earlier" than m7 )

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 in a life time.

Visions:

The same addressing methode will soon also be used

- indoor www.volksnav.com/deutschesmuseum www.volksnav.com/airportMUC

and

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

Just comparing this code for example with

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Jelpke "later" and farther to Munich than Braunschweig, more exactly

:183 - :170 = 13 km later

radius475 - r465 = 10 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is between 13 and 13+10 km.

- for advanced users: the direction Braunschweig/Jelpke (to later / to outside) is QuoVides 1, see www.quovides.com

Mobile applications: very soon also navigation devices and mobile phones will indicate such logical position codes and cardinal points including your QuoVides®, see www.volksnav.com/mobile .

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