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Munich Orientation Convention in Sacramento

Sacramento 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

- 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, metro stations, stop points, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

Tower bridge StatusQuo© Sacramento m9:4 r13

Mercy General hospital m3:8 r33

Rancho Seco nuclear plant m4:60 r412

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

Around a relevant point as the Capitol, the

centrum (or pole) m0,

the horizon is divided in 12 "horizon hours"

m1 to m12

whereas m12 points to north.

The horizon hours divide the city as a cake in 12 "hour" sectors. As an example, the sector m7 was marked.

The sectors are divided in horizon minutes, not as angles but as DISTANCES to the horizon hour, in steps of approx one "block of houses" or 100 meters.

Example: m3:4

( read "emm 3 point 42" or "emm three 4 )

This is a line in a distance of 4 x 100 m from the direction m3, which points to sunrise-

The convention for the 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 for targets, buildings, crossings etc. come into existence, e. g. as shown on the picture:

crossing StatusQuo© m7:5 r14

n 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 characteristics, see www.volksnav.com/map

The innovaive quadrangles look similar to the conventional ones. The figure abore shows a white quadrangle with the dimensons 400m x 400m. The bended sides let deduce where is the pole, even if the pole isn't on map.

Interesting details:

- the width of the sector is half the radius !! E. g. m7:5 r10, m7:10 r20, m7:15 r30 etc.

- the middle of the sector is radius/4, e. g. m7:5 r20, m7:10 r40 etc.

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 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. Other symbols for other directions are foreseen.

The picture reveils: m12 is behind, the urban pole 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 the Orientator© shown above, 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 the example shown on map above:

If your target is: Mercy General hospital m3:8 r33

and you've lost orientation on crossing m7:5 r14,

so you must go

- outwards ( r33 is more than r14 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m3 is "earlier" 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.

Vision:

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode will soon also be used

- indoor www.volksnav.com/DeutschesMuseum

and

- within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com.

Acc. to this, the international City Code of Sacramento is

Just comparing this code for example with

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Roseville is "earlier" and closer to Munich than Sacramento, more exactly

:2755 - :2745 = 10 km earlier

r9315 - r9285 = 30 km nearer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is about 30 and 30+10 km.

- for advanced users: the egocentrical directon Sacramento / Roseville (to earlier/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 1, see www.quovides.com

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.