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Madrid 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 Madrid, 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

Places, crossings, bus stops, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

crossing StatusQuo© Madrid m3:2 r8

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

Around the Puerta del Sol, the so-called

centrum m0,

the horizon is divided in 12 "horizon hours"

m1 to m12

whereas m12 points to north. This division in 12 directions is used by soldiers, boy scouts, pilots, blind people etc. for 100 years. Why not average people?

Horizon hours 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: m3:2

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

The convention is: 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© m3:2 r8

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

Orientators©, 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©.

Vertical Pointing©: additional to the position information, a round symbol called center pointer or centrador 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 Puerta del Sol 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 :

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?

( = is the target radius greater or smaller than the actual one?)

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:

and you've lost orientation on named crossing m3:2 r8,

so you must go

- inwards ( r6 is less than r8 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m2 is "earlier" than m3 )

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

Vision:

Natural World Co-ordinates: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor and within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Madrid is

Just comparing this code for example with

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Las Rozas is "later" and farther to Munich than Madrid , more exactly

:25 - :5 = 20 km earlier

r1490 - r1485 = 5 km farther

- the distance between both cities, the hipotenuse, is about 22 km.

- for advancers: the direction Las Rozas / Madrid is QuoVides® 4, see www.quovides.com

Mobile applications: Very soon also navigation devices and mobile phones will indicate such logical position codes and cardinal points, see www.volksnav.com/london