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Munich
Orientation Convention in San
Francisco
San Francisco 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, stations, bus
stops, bridges etc. have logical
addresses like
Golden
Gate bridge StatusQuo© SF m11:15
r75
Yerba Buena lighthouse
m1:40
r98
Monster
park
m7:25
r73
Camera Obscura
m9:26
r59
which are easy to
understand if you associate the city with a clock according to
following convention:
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A relevant point as the Sutro Tower,
Golden Gate bridge etc. was (will be) defined as the centrum m0. Around this pole, the
horizon is divided in 12 directions
m1 to
m12
These directions are also
called horizon hours and m12
points to north.
Horizon hours are divided in horizon minutes,
not as angles but as DISTANCES to the horizon hour, in steps
of approx. one "block of houses", 100 yards or 100 meters.
Example: m3:10
( read "emm 3 point 10" or "emm
three 10 " ).
This is the code for an imaginary line
which is paralell to the m3 direction in a distance of 10 x 100 meters. The convention
for the minutes is simply:
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:
crossing StatusQuo© SF m6:20 r52
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 !!
Orientators©,
the signage of the future
StatusQuo© addresses will be integrated
within the existing signage, see www.volksnav.com/lollipop,
or be indicated on so-called Orientators©.
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) |
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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 on right hand reveils: m12 is behind, the
London Bridge 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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physical
or
mental
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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| 2
r-comparison
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Ask yourself:
must I move inwards or outwards?
( in other words: 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?
( in other words: is the target m later or earlier
than the actual one?)
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Let's see an example shown on picture:
If your target is:
Monster park m7:25
r73
and you've lost orientation on crossing
m6:20 r52,
so you must move
- outwards ( r73 is more
than actual r52 )
and
- to "later" (clockwise) (
m7 is "later" than m6 )
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.
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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
www.volksnav.com/airportMUC
etc.
- and within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc.
to this, the international City Code of San Francisco is
WatchRose© m10:27 90 r94 35
Just comparing this code for example with
Tiburon WatchRose© m10:28 35 r94 45
it is possible to evaluate that
- the position of Tiburon is "later"
and farther to Munich than San Francisco, more exactly:
:2835 - :2790 =
45 km later
radius9445 - r9435 = 10 km
farther
- the distance between both locations, the
hipotenuse, is between 45 and 45+10 km
- for advanced users: the direction San Francisco
/ Tiburon (outwards, to later) is QuoVides® 12, see www.quovides.com
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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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