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Munich Orientation Convention in Chicago

Chicago 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

Pleasantview fire station StatusQuo© CCG m8 r210

Navteq World headquarters m11 r6

O' Hara international airport m10 r260

Water tower m12:10 r23

Gary casino boats m5:35 r422

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

A relevant point, e. g. the Willis Tower, 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 one "block of houses", 100 yards or 100 meters.

Example : m3:5 ( read "emm three point 5" or "emm three 5" ).

This is a line situated in a distance of 5 "blocks" 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© CCG m4:7 r18

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.

or: a simple answer to the simple question "where?".

Natural Cartography©:

a map with such a polar grid has innovative characteritics, see www.volksnav.com/map

Please be aware about the fact that the most of above mentioned targets aren't on map but with the help of the codes it's possible to imagine where they are situated !!

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 pole 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:

Your target is: m4:20 r100

If you've lost orientation on named crossing m4:7 r18,

so you must go

- outwards (radius r100 is more than actual r18 )

and

- to "later" (counterclockwise) ( m4:20 is "later" than the actual m4:7 )

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/mobile

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

Natural World Co-ordinates: 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. This method allows to address in a worldwide harmony

cities and small towns

road entrances / exits / crossings

bridges

tunnels

etc . Acc. to this, the international City Code of Chicago is

Just comparing the codes for example of Chicago and

is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Mundelein is "later" and closer to Munich than Chicago, more exactly

:655 - :605 = 50 km later

r7265 - r7255 = 10 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 50 and 50+10 km.

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Chicago / Mundelein (to later/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 11, see www.quovides.com