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Munich Orientation Convention in Dakar

Dakar 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

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Abass N'dao StatusQuo© Dakar m7 r11

Grand Mosque m5:4 r18

Stade Demba Drop m10:4 r15

Musee des Esclaves m3:25 r58

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

A relevant point as for example the Obelisque 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.

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", 100 yards or 100 meters.

Example : m3:5 ( read "emm 3 point 5" or "emm three 5" ).

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 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© Dakar m9:5 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.

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 white quadrangule with the dimensions 500m x 500m. The bended sides let know in which direction the urban pole is situated, even if the pole isn't on map.

- the width of the sector is half the radius !! Example: m8:5 r10, m8:10 r20.

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m8:5 r20

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: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire m7 r11

If you've lost orientation on named crossing m9:5 r18,

so you must go

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m7 is "earlier" than the actual m9 )

and

- inwards (radius r11 is less than actual r18 )

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

According to www.watchrose.com, this method also allows to address

cities and small towns

road entrances / exits / crossings

bridges

tunnels

etc in a worldwide harmony. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Dakar is

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

is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Nianing is "earlier" and farther to Munich than Dakar, more exactly

:1130 - :1065 = 65 km earlier

r4570 - r4580 = 10 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 65 and 65+10 km.

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Dakar / Nianing (to earlier/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 4, see www.quovides.com