Munich Orientation Convention in Leipzig

  Leipzig 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

 
                       Leipziger Messe StatusQuo© Leipzig m12:20 r65 

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

Around the Naschmarkt, 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:     m3:1  

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

This is a line situated in a distance of 1 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© Leipzig m10:2 r6

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 the mentioned point of interest Messe Leipzig is outside of the map but with the help of the code m12:20 r65 it is possible to imagige where it is !!   

 

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: Messe Leipzig   m12:20 r65      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing     m10:2 r6, 

so you must go

- outwards (radius r65 is more than the actual r6 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise)   ( m12 is "later"  than the actual m10 )

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 

 

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 Leipzig  is 

           WatchRose© m12:60 r360  

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

        Chemnitz WatchRose© m12:95 r315 

even a child can detect that the position of Chemnitz is “later” and closer to Munich than Leipzig, more exactly:

 - radius 360 – r315 = 45 km closer

 - :95 - :60 = 35 km later

 - the distance Chemnitz/Leipzig, the hipotenuse, is between 45 and 45+35 km

 - for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Chemnitz/Leipzig (to earlier/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 11, see www.quovides.com.