Munich Orientation Convention in  Ingolstadt                         Google mapplet

Ingolstadt 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 

Buildings, crossings, stop points, bridges, postal codes, house numbers etc. have logical addresses like

 
       Kreuztor   StatusQuo© Ingolstadt    m9 r5

       Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke                m4:1 r4

       Museum mobile                               m11:3 r23

       Köschinger Waldhaus                     m12:63 r138

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

A relevant point as the Pfeifturm 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 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 :  m3:1   ( read  "emm 3 point 1"  or  "emm three 1" ).  This is a line situated in a distance of 1 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© Ingolstadt  m1:2 r10     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 200m x 200m. 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: m8:2 r4.

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m8:1 r4

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 : 

Let's see an example: 

Your target is:                             museum mobile  m11:3 r23      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing              m1:2 r10, 

so you must go

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m11 is "earlier"  than the actual m1 ) 

and

- outwards (radius r23 is more than actual r10 )

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 Ingolstadt is 

                        WatchRose© m11:25  r70

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

                         Adelschlag   WatchRose©  m11:15  r82

  is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of Adelschlag  is "earlier" and farther to Munich than Ingolstadt , more exactly

    :25 - :15 = 10 km earlier

    r82 - r70 = 12 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 12 and 12+10 km. 

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction    Ingolstadt / Adelschlag  (to earlier/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 10, see www.quovides.com