DRAFT              Munich Orientation Convention

  Barcelona 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 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, bus stops etc. have logical addresses like

 
                       StatusQuo© BCN m9:10 r30 

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

 

 

Natural Cartography©: a map with such a polar grid has innovative characteritics, see www.volksnav.com/map   

 

Signage: 

         Orientator©

 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©: additionally to the position information, a round symbol called center pointer will be placed on their periphery and shall help to detect the direction m0  according to the following convention: 

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 on left side reveils: m12 is behind, Plaza de Glories is right hand . 

( you can also read Vertical Pointing© using the F-clock: see below ):

         

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: 

If the position code of your target is given as m8:40 r90  

and you've lost orientation on crossing m9:10 r80, 

so you must go

- outwards ( r90 is greater than r80 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclock)   ( m9 is "later"  than m8 )

This may seem to be unfamiliar, but the orientation based on cardinal points is used since 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 in a life time. 

For advanced users: the "minutes" will never exceed r/2 (!!) and the middle of the sector is always r/4 minutes.

Vision:

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 Barcelona is 

          WatchRose© m7:330  r10 55

Just comparing this code with Talamanca WatchRose© m7:360 r10 40 , it's possible to evaluate that

- the position of Talamanca is "later" and closer to Munich, more exactly

         :360 - 330 = 30 km later

          radius1055 - r1040 = 15 km closer

- distance between both locations (hypotenuse):  about 35 km   

 

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

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*)  F clock / Quantification of directions: 

you can also read Vertical Pointing© using the F-clock as follows: 

 f12      =         in ( f ) ront of you      =       upper place on Orientator©

 f6        =         behind                     =        bottom place 

 etc. In other words: the f-places are at the same time f-directions starting from your body. 

The interpretation of this example is:

m12 = f6 (behind)                 

m0 = f2