Munich Orientation Convention in  Shenyang     other cities

Shenyang 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 

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

 
    Zoological garden    StatusQuo© Shenyang    m4 r20

    Shenyang station                                            m9 r50

    Olympic stadium                                             m5:25 r63

    Taoxian airport                                                m5:60 r180

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

A relevant point as the Imperial Palace 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 imaginary sectors. As an example, the picture right hand signs the sector m8.

 

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 :  m3:25   ( read  "emm 3 point 25"  or  "emm three 25" ). 

This is a line situated in a distance of 25 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 come into existence, e. g. as shown on the picture: 

        crossing StatusQuo© Shenyang   m8:30 r110    

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 search grid contains quadrangules similar to the conventional ones. The picture above shows a white quadrangule with the dimensions 2,5 km x 2,5 km. The bended sides let know in which direction the urban pole is situated, even if it isn't on map.. 

- the width of the sector is half the radius !! Example: m8:25 r50,   m8:50 r100 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m8:25 r100

 

Other examples for logical position codes:

Sun Bird m9:6 r19
Wulihe stadium m6:20 r48
north station m10:10 r27

 

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 (f4)

            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: 

Your target is:                           Olympic stadium m5:25 r63      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing          m8:30 r110, 

so you must go

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m5 is "earlier"  than the actual m8 ) 

and

- outwards (radius r63 is less than actual r110 )

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 Shenyang is:

                                WatchRose© m1:17 65  r79 90  

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

                  Fushun   WatchRose© m1:17 35  r80 10

  is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of  Fushun is "earlier" and farther to Munich than Shenyang, more exactly

    :1765 - :1735 = 30 km earlier

    r8010 - r7990 = 20 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 30 and 30+20 km. 

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Shenyang / Fushun  (to earlier/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 2, see www.quovides.com