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Munich Orientation Convention in Vilnius

Vilnius 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, stop points, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

The Gates of Dawn StatusQuo© Vilnius m6 r13

Green bridge m10:1 r28

Likiskes square m9:4 r13

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

An outstanding point as e. g. the Gediminas tower 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 sector m9 is signed.

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 m9:5 ( read "emm 9 point 5" or "emm nine 5" ).

This is a line situated in a distance of 5 x 100m from the horizon hour m9, which points to sunset.

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© Vilnius m8:4 r15

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 . 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 500m x 500m. 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: m8:5 r10, m8:10 r20 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m8:5 r20

Other logical addresses:

St. Stanislau cathedral	m8	r2
TV tower	m9	r48
King Mindaugas bridge	m11	r3
VPU stadium	m9	r23
boarder to Belarus	m4:280	r595

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, the 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 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: TV tower m9 r48

If you've lost orientation on named crossing m8:4 r15,

so you must go

- outwards (radius r48 is more than actual r15 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise) ( m9 is "later" than the actual m8 )

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:

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

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 Vilnius is

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

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Trakai "earlier" and closer to Munich than Vilnius, more exactly

:355 - :345 = 10 km earlier

r1190 - r1170 = 20 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 20 and 20+10 km.

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Vilnius / Trakai (to later/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 8, see www.quovides.com