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Munich Orientation Convention in Beijing

Beijing has the option to be world's first city that has introduced natural orientation tools, 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, stations etc. have logical addresses like

City Hall StatusQuo© Beijing m4:2 r12

San Yuan bridge m1:11 r80

International airport m1:50 r265

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

Around the Gate of Heavenly Peace or the Zero Point, the

centrum m0,

the horizon is divided in 12 horizon hours

m1 to m12

whereas m12 points to north.

Horizon hours are divided in horizon minutes, not as angles but as DISTANCES to the horizon hour, in steps of approx one "block of houses" or 100 meters.

Example: m3:5

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

The convention for the minutes is simply:

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 m3:1 r18

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.

Example for station codes, in case of centering on Zero Point:

All stations: www.volksnav.com/Beijing/BeijingSubway.pdf

Natural Cartography©: a map with such a polar grid has innovative characteristics, see www.volksnav.com/map . For example: the San Yuan bridge isn't on above map, but with the help of the code m1:11 r80 it is possible to imagine its location !!

Example for a natural location map: www.volksnav.com/BeijingCyberTower

Orientators©: the signage of the future:

Orientator©

StatusQuo© addresses will be integrated within the existing signage or be indicated on so-called Orientators©.

Vertical Pointing©: additionally, round and square symbols (called pointers) will be placed on their periphery and shall help to detect the directions m0 respectively m12, 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 above reveals that north = m12 is behind, m0 is on right side.

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 the example shown on the picture above:

If the position code of your target is given as City hall m4:2 r12

and you've lost orientation on crossing m3:1 r18,

so you must go

- inwards ( r12 is less than actual r18 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise) ( m4 is "later" than m3 )

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 half the radius (!!) and the middle of the sector is always r/4.

Vision:

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor and within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Beijing is

Result of comparison: the airport is farther and "earlier" to Munich than Beijing, more exactly:

- radius 7777 - r7750 = 27 km farther

- :2320 - :2293 = 27 km "earlier

The distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is between 27 and 27+27 km

for advanced users only: the direction airport/Beijing (to inside / to later) is QuoVides® 8, see www.quovides.com

Result: Panggezhuang is farer and "later" to Munich:

- 7766 - 7750 = 16 km farer

- :2347 - 2322 = 27 km later

- distance between both locations: between 27 and 27+16 km

- direction Panggezhuang/Beijing: QuoVides® 1

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