DRAFT              Munich Orientation Convention

  Bremen 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 Bremen, 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, tunnels etc. have logical addresses like

 
                       StatusQuo© Bremen m8:5 r18 

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

Around the sculpture of the Bremer Stadtmusikanten at the Mayor House,  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:  m7:3  

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

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© Bremen m7:3 r9

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   

 

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 pointer will be placed on their periphery to allow to detect the direction m0  according to the following convention: 

                 Orientator©

 
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 reveils: m12 is behind, the centrum m0 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©, would you have to turn to left or to right? 

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 shon on picture: 

If your target is:    bridge StatusQuo© m7 r5  

and you've lost orientation on named crossing     m7:3 r9, 

so you must go

- inwards ( r5 is less than r9 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m7 is "earlier"  than m7:3 )

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. 

For advancers: 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 Bremen is:

      WatchRose© m11:115 r585 

Just comparing this code for example with 

    Achim WatchRose© m11:123 r572

    it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of Achim is "later" and nearer to Munich than Bremen, more exactly

    :123 - :115 = 8 km later

    r585 - r572 = 13 km nearer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be about 15 km. 

- for advancers: to go from Bremen to Achim, you've to go to "later" and to  inside. From a position m11, your target direction will be QuoVides® 4 , see www.quovides.com 

  

Mobile applications:  very soon also navigation devices and mobile phones will indicate such logical position codes and cardinal points including your QuoVides®, see www.volksnav.com/london 

 

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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 = f4