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Munich Orientation Convention in Wellington

Wellington 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, postal codes, navigation devices and verbal expressions.

Within this city, it is 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 navigation devices

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

Wobum station StatusQuo© Wellington m2 r130

Mana island m12 r210

Te Papa Tongarewa m5:2 r14

International airport m5:5 r60

Oteranga bay m8:45 r125

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

The Beehive was (will be) defined as the

centrum or 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 m7 was 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: m3:5

( read "emm three point 5" or "emm three 5" )

This is a line situated in a distance of 5 x 100m from the horizon hour 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.:

crossing StatusQuo© Wellington m7:2 r14

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.

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: m4:5 r10, m4:10 r20 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m4:5 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 or oval 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. According to the same convention, a square symbol points to north = m12.

The picture right hand reveils: the pole m0 is right side (f3), m12 is behind (f6).

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 :

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.

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 position code of your target is given as Airport m5:5 r60

and you've lost orientation on crossing m7:2 r14,

so you must go

- outwards ( r60 is more than actual r14 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m5 is "earlier" than m7 )

This may seem 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.

Emergency cases: according to a study from the European Union, every year one million callers of emergency services aren't able to describe their own position, causing painful seeking times. This is not caused by ignorance but by the poorness of the actual orientation means. At the World Trade Center in NY, additional panic has raised because the helpers didn't know which one of the towers has been tower 1 or 2.

People who dominate the orientation esperanto according to the Munich Orientation Convention are smarter. It will be possible to guide them by mobile phone, loudspeaker etc., thereby less panic than today will arise.

Vision:

Indoor signage: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor , e.g.

www.volksnav.com/DeutschesMuseum www.volksnav.com/AirportMUC etc.

Natural World Co-ordinates: the system can also be used within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Wellington is

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

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Portrua is "earlier" and closer to Munich than Wellington, more exactly

:175 - :150 = 25 km earlier

r18500 - r18480 = 20 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 25 and 25+20 km.

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Wellington / Portrua (to earlier/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 1, see www.quovides.com

Mobile applications: 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