VolksNav© in London

London 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 London, 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, stations, bus stops, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

City Hall StatusQuo© LON m8:2 r5

Knights bridge metro station m8:25 r58

Madam Tussaud m9:20 r58

Beatle's Abbey Road m9:30 r76

which are easy to understand if you associate the city with a clock according to following convention:

The London Tower (optional the Big Ben) is (will be) defined as the centrum 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

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", 100 yards or 100 meters.

Example : m9:10 ( read "emm 9 point 10" or "emm nine 10" ).

This is a line situated in a distance of 10 x 100m from the horizon hour m9, which points to sunset. The convention for horizon minutes is very simple: 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© LON m8:5 r35

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 !!

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: m8:10 r20, m8:20 r40 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m8:5 r20

Other examples for position codes:

airport Stansted :	m1	r480
London city	m2:10	r20
Gatwick	m6:80	r400
Heathrow	m8:100	r270
bridge London	m9:2	r9
. Millenium	m9:4	r16
Blackfriars	m9:4	r20	station Blackfriars	m9:6	r20
. Waterloo	m9:3	r29	station Waterloo	m8:10	r26
. Hungerford	m9	r31
. Westminster	m8:12	r32	station Westminster	m8:13	r34
. Lambeth	m8:5	r35
. Vauxhall	m8	r41
. Grosvenor	m8:4	r54
. Chelsea	m8:5	r56
. Albert	m8:9	r68
. Battersea	m8:10	r72
Upney station	m2:30	r127
Wembley stadium	m9:57	r152
Orpington hospital	m4:80	r198
Foreland lighthouse	m3:134	r1063

According to this convention, the question "where is the borough... ?" could be answered logically

radius 10 could be equivalent to 10 km.

If the actual divisions should be reformed, this methode opens new aspects.

Orientator©

The signage of the future: StatusQuo© addresses will be integrated within the existing signage, see www.volksnav.com/lollipop, or be indicated on so-called Orientators©.

orientator

Orientator©

Vertical Pointing©: additional to the position information, a round symbol called center 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 above reveils: m12 is behind, the London Bridge 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 :

physical

mental

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?

r-comparison

Ask yourself:

must I move inwards or outwards?

( in other words: is the target radius greater or smaller than the actual one?)

m-comparison

Ask yourself:

must I move to “later” (clockwise) or to earlier?

( in other words: is the target m later or earlier than the actual one?)

Let's see an example shown on picture:

If your target is: Knights bridge m8:25 r58

and you've lost orientation on crossing m8:5 r35,

so you must move

- outwards ( r58 is more than actual r35 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise) ( m8:25 is "later" than m8:5 )

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.

Vision

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor www.volksnav.com/DeutschesMuseum www.volksnav.com/airportMUC etc.

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

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

Just comparing this code for example with

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Chelmsford is "later" and closer to Munich than London, more exactly:

:13 - :0 = 13 km later

radius915 - r890 = 25 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is about 35 km

- for advanced users: the direction London/Chelmsford (inwards, to later) is QuoVides® 2, see www.quovides.com