Munich Orientation Convention in Abuja           Google mapplet                      Port Harcourt

Abuja 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

 
      National hospital                   StatusQuo© Abuja  m8 r57 

      City gate                                                           m8:3 r73 

      Ministry of Transport                                         m9:15 r60 

      Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport                    m8:75 r275                

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

Around a pole called m0, 

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:     m9:10  

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

This is a line situated in a distance of 10 x 100m = 1km 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© Abuja m7:18 r40

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 the a. m. airport isn't on map but the code m8:75 r275 make it possible to imagine where it is !!

 

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  (12)
  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 (f3) 

 

            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: 

Let's suppose, your target is:       Tulip Press   m9:11 r48      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing     m7:18 r40, 

so you must go

- outwards (radius r40 is less than r48 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise)   ( m9 is "later"  than the actual m7 )

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 ogical 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.tinyURL.com/MenlynParkMapplet 

and 

- within the whole globe, see  www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Abuja is 

           WatchRose© m6:450  r43 60  

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

        Kaduna WatchRose© m6:450   r42 00  

it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of Kaduna is closer to Munich than Abuja, more exactly

     r4360 - r4200 = 160 km closer