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Munich Orientation Convention in Rostock

Rostock 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

Warnowtunnel StatusQuo© RSTK m11 r60

Stadthalle m7:2 r16

Ostseestadion m8:10 r30

Kongresszentrum m11:25 r105

Vogelpark Marlow m2:85 r285

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.

This divides the city as a cake in 12 imaginary sectors. As an example, the sector m7 is marked.

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 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:

crossing StatusQuo© KL m7:1 r5

StausQuo 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 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 !

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 centre isn't on map.

- the width of the sector is half the radius !! Example: m7:5 r10, m7:10 r20 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m7:5 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 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 (f12)	m0 will be	in front of you (f12)
	on bottom (f6)		behind (f6)
	right hand (3)		right hand (f3)

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:

If the StatusQuo© of your target is: Ostseestadion m8:10 r30

and you've lost orientation on crossing m7:1 r5,

so you must go

- outwards ( r30 is more than r5 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise) ( m8 is "later" 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.

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.

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 Rostock is

Just comparing this code for example with

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Gelbensande is "later" and farther to Munich, more exactly

:65 - :30 = 35 km later

radius675 - r660 = 15 km farther

- the distance Gelbensande/Rostock, the hipotenuse, is between 35 and 35+15 km.

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

Egocentrical long range signage:

non-quantifying

signage

Logical position codes quantify directions and distances by using the skill to read a clock. This makes a signage like shown left side get obsolete.

The modern art to give a simple answer to the simple question "where?" will be the indication of the north direction (m12) and a table e. g. for cities in co-operation with Rostock:

Copenhagen QuoVadis*) RSTK m12:260 r1790 ( steps of 100m )

Helsinki m1:2400 r10240

St. Petersburg m1:4800 r12720

Dalian m1:22540 r76840

*) Duality: if a position code is a possible target, it is suggested to define the prefix as QuoVadis (where are you going) instead of StatusQuo (where you are).

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