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Weak points of actual cartography Characteristics of the Natural Cartography©

Brussels has the option to be world's first city that has realized an international orientation standard, an idea from a Munichian inventor.

In this city, all targets, crossings, stations, bus stops, bridges, tunnels etc. will have logical addresses like

StatusQuo© BRS m3:22 r81

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

The Grand Place is defined as the centrum m0 of this clock. Around m0, the horizon is divided in 12 directions

m1 to m12, the so called horizon hours,

whereas m12 points to north, m3 to east, m6 to south etc.

Horizon hours are divided in horizon minutes, which correspond to a DISTANCE to the horizon hour in steps of approx.

100 meters / 30 feet / 1 block of houses

Example: m2:4

( read "emm two point nine" or "emm two nine" )

This means that this object must be situated within a line which is 4 blocks of houses "later" ( = clockwise ) than the direction m2.

Considering the distance to m0 as r = Radius with the same steps as for the horizon minutes, logical position indications StatusQuo© come into existence, for example as a crossing code:

StatusQuo BRS m2:9 r30

Another example:

the StatusQuo© of the station Erasmus would be BRS m8 r78

In other words:

"r" is a numbering starting from the centrum,

"m" is a north-direction-based numbering around the centrum.

BRS means that the position code refers to Brussels. The same addressing methode can be used for the globe, see www.watchrose.com and very soon also mobile phones will indicate such position codes, see www.volksnav.com/london

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:

- must I move inwards or outwards? (r comparison)
- must I move to “later” (clockwise) or to earlier? (m comparison)

To answer these questions so as to evaluate the resulting target direction, it is first needed to look outwards, that means, to turn the own body so that m0 will be behind.

In this position, right hand will be "to later", left hand "to earlier", ahead will be outwards, behind inwards.

Beginners have to turn physically, after some exercises anyone will be able to do this by his imagination power.

Let's see an example:

If the position code of your target is given as m2:13 r33

and you've lost orientation on crossing m2:9 r30,

so you must go

- outwards ( r33 is greater than r30 )

and

- to "later" ( :13 is "later" than :9 )

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.

StatusQuo© addresses will be integrated within the existing signage or be indicated on so-called Orientators©. Additionally, round and square symbols will be placed on their periphery and shall help to detect the directions m0 and m12 respectively, according to the convention:

if the symbol is placed on upper side, then the far point is ahead,

if ... bottom, then ... behind,

if ... right side, then ... right side

etc.

Example:

This picture reveals:

- the centrum m0 is on right side.
- north (m12) is behind,