Munich Orientation Convention in Kharkov    

  

Kharkov 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, 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 etc. have logical addresses like

                      Hystory Museum StatusQuo© KHKV m5:4 r22 


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

Around a centrum or pole  m0, 

the horizon is divided in 12 directions, respectively horizon hours  

     m1  to  m12

whereas m12 points to north. This divides the city as a cake into 12 sectors. 

The sectors 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:     m3:5  

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

The convention for the minutes is simply:

     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 m6:2 r7

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

which will replace postal 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 !! 

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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 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. Acc. to the same convention, a square symbol points to north = m12.  The picture reveils: m12 is behind, the pole is right hand 

            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 : 

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 exercise with the example shown on the picture above: 

 

If the position code of your target is given as       m5:4 r22  

and you've lost orientation on crossing m6:2 r7, 

so you must go

- outwards ( r22 is greater than actual r7 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m5 is "earlier"  than the actual  m6 )

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. 

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.

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Vision:

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 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     www.volksnav.com/airportMUC 

and 

- within the whole globe, see  www.watchrose.com. 

Acc. to this, the international City Code of Kharkov is 

          WatchRose© m2:440  r18 00

What is that good for? Just comparing the WatchRoses©, you can imagine distances and directions between 2 locations. 

Example: let's compare with   Kiew  WatchRose© m2:300  r13 95, 

Result of comparison: Kiew is closer and "earlier" to Munich than Kharkov, more exactly:

-    radius 1800 - r1395 = 405 km closer

-    :440 - :300 = 140 km "earlier" 

The distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 405 and 405+140 km   

for advanced users only: 

the direction Kiew/Kharkov ( to outside / to later ) is QuoVides® 4,   see www.quovides.com