Munich Orientation Convention in Yangzhou           

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Yangzhou 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

 
        Yangzhou international exhibition center  StatusQuo© YZU   m9:15 r52

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

(c)2007 Munich Orientation Convention www.volksnav.com 

An outstandig point, e. g. an important bridge, the Wenfeng tower, the City Hall etc. 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.

Horizon hours 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 (shown on picture with bigger blue letters):     m9:5  

( read   "emm nine point five"   or   "emm nine five" ). 

This is a line situated in a distance of 5 x 100m from the horizon hour m9. 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   m11:6 r24    

 

                       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 a. m. exhibition center isn't on map but the logical position code m9:15 r52 make it possible to imagine where it is situated ! The codes remain valid even if the pole isn't on map, for example:

              Yangzhou Economic Development Zone / LED Industrial Park

  

        

 

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 m0 will be in front of you
  on bottom   behind
  right hand   right hand

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:                      exhibition center   m9:15 r52      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing      m11:6 r24, 

so you must go

- outwards (radius r52 is more than actual r24 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m9 is "earlier"  than the actual m11 )

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/london

 

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 Yangzhou is 

           WatchRose© m1:27 70  r85 50  

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

        Nanjing WatchRose©  m1:28 40  r85 40 

it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of  Nanjing is "later" and closer to Munich than Yangzhou, more exactly

    :2840 - :2770 = 70 km later

    r8550 - r8540 = 10 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 70 and 70+10 km. 

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction  Yangzhou / Nanjing  (to later/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 8, see www.quovides.com

 

In case of doubt, see the following map: