VolksNav© in Frankfurt / Main
Frankfurt / Main 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, postal codes, navigation devices and verbal expressions.
Within this city, 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, postal codes, house numbers etc. have logical addresses like
airport StatusQuo© FFM m7:30 r120
Ostbahnhof m3:10 r73
Niederräder Brücke m7:20 r43
Gotisches Haus Dornholzhausen m11
r157
which are easy to understand if you associate the city with a clock as follows:
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The Römer place was (will be) defined as a pole m0. Around this pole, the horizon is divided in 12 "horizon hours" m1 to m12 , whereas m12 points to north. Horizon hours are divided in horizon minutes. These are not angles but DISTANCES to the horizon hour, in steps of approx one "block of houses", 100 yards or 100 meters. Example : m3:1 ( read "emm three point 1" or "emm three 1" ). This is a line situated in a distance of 1 x 100m from the horizon hour m3, which points to sunrise. The convention for horizon minutes is very simple: the greater, the later.
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Considering the distance to m0 as r = radius also in steps of blocks of houses, logical position codes StatusQuo© (where you are) for targets, buildings, crossings etc. come into existence, e. g. as shown on the picture:
Crossing m8:2 r5
StatusQuo means "where you are". 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
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 !!
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 or pole pointer will be placed on their periphery to allow to detect the direction m0 according to the following conventions:
etc. Acc. to the same convention, a square symbol points to north = m12. The picture reveils: m12 is behind (f6), the pole is right hand (f3) |
Orientator© |
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 :
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Positioning
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Turn your body until m0 will be BEHIND. In this position,
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? |
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r-comparison
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Ask yourself: must I move inwards or outwards? ( = is the target radius greater or smaller than the actual one?) |
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m-comparison
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Ask yourself: must I move to “later” (clockwise) or to earlier? ( = is the target m later or earlier than the actual one?)
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Let's exercise with the example shown on the picture above:
If the position code of your target "airport" is given as m7:33 r120
and you've lost orientation on crossing m8:2 r5,
so you must go
- outwards ( r120 is greater than actual r5 )
and
- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m7 is "earlier" than m8 )
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.
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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. |
Vision:
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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 download the demo program for pocketPC with/without GPS from www.volksnav.com. |
Indoor orientation:the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor, see
www.volksnav.com/deutschesmuseum www.volksnav.com/airportMUC
Natural World Co-ordinates:the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor, see www.volksnav.com/deutschesmuseum and within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Frankfurt / Main is
WatchRose© m10:90 r305
What is that good for? Just comparing the WatchRoses©, you can imagine distances and directions between 2 locations.
Example: Oberliederbach WatchRose© m10:83 r313,
Result of comparison: Oberliederbach is farer and "earlier" to Munich than Frankfurt, more exactly:
- radius 313 - r305 = 8 km farer
- :90 - :83 = 7 km "earlier"
The distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 8 and 8+7 km
for advanced users only:
the direction Frankfurt / Oberliederbach (to outside / to earlier) is QuoVides® 9, see www.quovides.com
