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Munich Orientation Convention  in Budapest           google mapplet

Budapest 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 

Buildings, crossings, metro stations, stop points, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

 
                      Margit bridge  StatusQuo© BP  m12 r17 

                      Petöfi bridge                             m5 r26

                      Deák Férenc square                 m3 r7

                      Ferihegy airport                        m3:80 r190 

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

The Chain Bridge was (will be) defined as the     centrum or pole m0,  Around this pole, the horizon is divided in 12 horizon hours        m1  to  m12 whereas m12 points to north. This divides the city as a cake in 12 imaginary sectors. As an example, the sector m6 was marked.
	The sectors 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:     m3:10   ( read   "emm three point ten"   or   "emm three ten" )  This is a line situated in a distance of 10 x 100m from the horizon hour m3 , which points to sunrise. 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.:      crossing  StatusQuo© BP m6:5 r16 StatusQuo means "where you are" and BP means that the code is valid for Budapest 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.

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Natural Cartography©: 

a map with such a polar grid has innovative characteritics, see www.volksnav.com/map . Please be aware about the fact that if the target isn't on map, with the help of the logical position code it's possible to imagine where it is situated !! 

Interesting details: 

- the search grid contains quadrangules similar to the conventional ones. The picture above shows a white quadrangule with the dimensions 1 km x 1 km. The bended sides let know in which direction the urban pole is situated, even if the centre isn't on map. 

- the width of the sector is half the radius !! Example: m4:10 r20, m4:20 r40 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m4:5 r20

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.	Example for an optimized location map:  German Embassy StatusQuo© BP m9:4 r12

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Other logical addresses (clockwise):

Metro stations (draft)

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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 or oval 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 (f12)   on bottom (f6)   behind (f6)   right hand (f3)   right hand (f3) etc. According to the same convention, a square symbol points to north = m12.   The picture right hand reveils:  - the pole m0 is behind (f5), the user is looking to out of town. In this direction the radius will increase (r14, r15 etc.). Right hand is clockwise (m9:6, m10 etc.)  - m12 is right hand (f2),.the north pointer was sponsored.

Orientator©  with advertisement

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 : 

Let's see an example: 

If the position code of your target is given as German Embassy m9:4 r12  

and you've lost orientation on crossing                                     m6:5 r16, 

so you must go

- inwards ( r12 is less than actual r16 )

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- to "later" (clockwise)   ( m9 is "later"  than m6 )

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Second example:

Target               German Embassy         m9:4 r12

actual position:                  metro station m9 r15

VolksNav©:                to inside,         to later

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3rd. example:

Target:                Puskas Ferenc stadion            m2:15 r40

actual position:      metro station Stadionok          m2:23 r48

VolksNav© :         800m to inside,       800m to earlier 

This may seem 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. 

In a real situation, VolksNav© can be learned within few minutes, that means, faster than the most seeking times. Then you'll be able to navigate everywhere as elegant as around the Christus statue in Rio de Janeiro, where the idea of a quantified polar orientation and an orientation standard was born.

Emergency cases: according to a study from the European Union, every year one million callers of emergency services aren't able to describe their own position, causing painful seeking times. This is not caused by ignorance but by the poorness of the actual orientation means. At the World Trade Center in NY, additional panic has raised because the helpers didn't know which one of the towers has been tower 1 or 2.

People who dominate the orientation esperanto according to the Munich Orientation Convention are smarter. It will be possible to guide them by mobile phone, loudspeaker etc., thereby less panic than today will arise. 

Vision:

Indoor signage: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor , e.g.

www.volksnav.com/DeutschesMuseum     www.volksnav.com/AirportMUC  etc.

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Natural World Co-ordinates: the system can also be used within the whole globe, see  www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Budapest is 

          WatchRose© m3:45 r565  

Just comparing this with e. g.

Dunakeszi WatchRose© m3:30 r565

it is immediately possible to evaluate: 

the distance of both locations to Munich is 565 km, the position of Dunakeszi is "earlier", more exactly::45 - :30 = 15 km earlier, that's the distance between both locations.

Mobile applications: 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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Compass with quantified cardinal points

North = egocentrical m12