Munich Orientation Convention in Manaus           Portugues              google mapplet

Manaus 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 

Buildings, crossings, stop points, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

                    Museu do Indio, StatusQuo© MNS m3:4 r13 

                  Mayor House  StatusQuo© MNS m10:5 r38  

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

An outstanding point as e. g. Teatro Amazonas, was (will be) defined as a pole 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. As an example, the sector m7 was marked.
	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" or 100 meters.      Example      m3:1           ( read   "emm 3 point 1"   or   "emm three 1" ).  This is a line situated in a distance of 1 x 100m from the horizon hour m3, which points to sunrise. 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©   m5:2 r8 StatusQuo means "where you are". 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.

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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 200m x 200m. 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: m4:2 r4, m4:4 r8 etc..

- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m4:2 r8

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Other examples:

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 : 

Let's see three examples: 

If your target is:          StatusQuo© MNS m4:1 r5  

and you've lost orientation on named crossing     m5:2 r8, 

so you must go

- inwards ( r5 is less than r8 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m4 is "earlier"  than m5 )

Second example: 

For to reach the porto flutuante m6:3 r8 from the same crossing m5:2 r8, just go to "later".

Third example: 

a crossing near to the mayor house StatusQuo(c) MNS m10:5 r38 has the crossing code 

     m10:4 r37

so you know that from this crossing, the mayor house will be a little "to later" and "to outside"  

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 

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

           WatchRose© m8:15 35  r89 20 

Just comparing this code for example with 

       Carirí     WatchRose© m8:15 45  r89 10 

it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of Carirí is "later" and closer to Munich than Manaus , more exactly

    :15 45 - :15 35 = 10 km later

    r8920 - r8910 = 10 km closer

- the distance between both cities, the hipotenuse, is about 12 km. 

Compare this with the map:

If you want to exercise, try to find out in which direction and how far 

       WatchRose© m8:12 80  r86 45    

should be if you start from Manaus. For the answer, look at the last line below.

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Exercise:  

Parintins WatchRose© m8:12 80  r86 45

400 km in direction m2/m3 from Manaus