Munich Orientation Convention in Hongkong             

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Hongkong 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 (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 etc. have logical addresses like

              Convention Center   StatusQuo© HKG m2:5 r30

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

Around the Victoria Peak, the pole m0, 

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" or 100 meters. 

    Example:     m3:50  

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

This is a line situated in a distance of 50 x 100m from the horizon hour m3. 

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. as shown on the picture: 

                          crossing StatusQuo© HKG m2:20 r155

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.

 

Other logical addresses  (clockwise):

Chinese University  m12:60  r170
Sha Tin race track  m12:60   r150
Wong Tai Sin temple  m1:4   r90
China Hongkong City  m1:5   r36
Peninsula hotel  m1:10   r35
Victoria park  m2:14   r45
Stanley market  m4:20  r93
Aberdeen floating restaurants  m5:2   r38
Disneyland  m9:45  r115
Chek Lap Kok airport  m9:45  r220
Lo Wu boarder crossing  m11:110  r285

 

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 it outside of the map, with the help of the position code, e. g. m12 r400,  it will possible to imagine where it is !!   

Example for a location 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 or pole pointer will be placed on their periphery to allow to detect the direction m0  according to the following conventions: 

            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 pole is right hand. 

 

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 an example: 

Let's suppose, your target is:    Convention center  m2:5 r30      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing     m2:20 r155, 

so you must go

- inwards (radius r30 is less than r155 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m2:5 is "earlier"  than the actual m2:20 )

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 advanced users: the minutes will never exceed half the radius (!!) and the middle of the sector is always r/4.

 

Vision:

Mobile applications: Very soon also navigation devices and mobile phones will indicate such logical position codes and cardinal points 

You're invited to test the program for pocketPC/smartphone with/without GPS by means of a download from www.volksnav.com

 

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode will soon also be used 

- indoor www.volksnav.com/deutschesmuseum

and 

- within the whole globe, see  www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Hongkong is 

           WatchRose© m2:650  r90 60  

What is this good for? Just comparing the codes for example of Hongkong and  

        Shenzhen WatchRose© m2:640   r90 35  

it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of Shenzhen  is "earlier" and closer to Munich than Hongkong, more exactly

    :650 - :640 = 10 km earlier

    r9060 - r9035 = 25 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 25 and 25+10 km. 

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction  Hongkong /Shenzhen  (to later/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 11, see www.quovides.com