Munich
Orientation Convention in Linz
Linz 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 and verbal expressions.
Within this city, it is (will be) possible to find any target with easy brain
work, that means
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without maps, |
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without names, |
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without illogical numbers
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- without
arrows |
| - without
floor marks
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- without
square grids
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| - without colors |
- without
compass or other navigation
devices
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Buildings,
crossings, stop points, bridges etc. have logical
addresses like
Brucknerhaus StatusQuo©
Linz m2 r6
Dreifaltigkeitssäule
m5 r3
Wallfahrtsbasilika Pöstlingberg m10:5
r26
airport
m7:20
r108
which are easy to
understand if you associate the city with a clock as follows:
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An outstanding point as the Niebelungen bridge
(or Hauptplatz,
Basilika etc.) will be defined as an
urban pole called 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. As an example, please find on the picture
below the sector m9.
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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" 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.
.
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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 below:
crossing StatusQuo©
Linz m9:3 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.
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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 width of the sector is half the radius !! Example:
m9:5 r10, m9:10 r20 etc..
- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example:
m9:5 r20
- 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 centre isn't on map.
A location map would look like this:
without grid: |
logical address of
Linz09: StatusQuo© Linz m3 r10
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Other logical addresses (clockwise)
:
| Johannes
Kepler University
|
m1:5 |
r40 |
| Schloss Steyegg |
m3:25 |
r68 |
| Design Center |
m4 |
r18 |
| Solarcity Linz Pichling |
m4:20 |
r80 |
| Barmherzige Brüder |
m5:2 |
r10 |
| Linzer stadium |
m6:7 |
r17 |
| Kraftwerk Ottensheim-Wilhering |
m9:12 |
r100 |
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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) |
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on bottom
(f6) |
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behind
(f6) |
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right hand
(f3) |
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right hand
(f3) |
etc. Acc. to the same convention, a
square symbol points to north = m12. The picture reveils: m12 is
behind, the pole is right hand
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Orientator©
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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 :
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Positioning
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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?
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r-comparison
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Ask yourself:
must I move inwards or outwards?
( = is the target radius
greater or smaller than the actual one?)
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m-comparison
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Ask yourself:
must I move to “later” (clockwise)
or to earlier?
( = is the target m later or earlier
than the actual one?)
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Let's see an example:
Your target is: airport
m7:20
r108
If you've lost orientation on named
crossing m9:3
r10,
so you must go
- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) (
m7
is "earlier" than the actual m9 )
and
- outwards (radius r108 is greater
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. On a real situation, VolksNav© can
be learned within few minutes, that means, faster than the most seeking
times.
Vision:
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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 test the program
for pocketPC/smartphone with/without GPS by means of a download from
www.volksnav.com
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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.
Acc. to this, the international City Code of Linz is
WatchRose© m2:80 r200
What is this good for? Just comparing the codes for example
of Linz and
Enns
WatchRose© m2:98 r215
it is possible to evaluate that
- the position of Enns is "later" and
farther to Munich than Linz, more exactly
:98 - :80 = 18 km later
r215 - r200 = 15 km farther
- the distance between both locations, the
hipotenuse, will be between 18 and 18+15 km.
- for advanced users:
the egocentrical direction Linz
/ Enns (to later/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 4, see www.quovides.com