Munich Orientation Convention in Seoul
Seoul 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
Dongho
bridge StatusQuo© SEOUL m4
r33
Dobongsan station m12:50 r162
Incheon international airport m8:160 r480
which are easy to understand if you associate the city with a clock as follows:
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Around the Seoul tower, 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: m4:10 ( read "emm four point ten" or "emm four ten" ). This is a line situated in a distance of 10 x 100m from the horizon hour m4. 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© Seoul m8:8 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 characteristics, see www.volksnav.com/map For example: even if targets are outside of the map, with the help of the position code it is possible to imagine where they are !
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 or oval symbol called center or pole pointer will be placed on the periphery of the signage to allow to detect the direction m0 according to the following conventions:
etc. According to the same convention, a square symbol points to north = m12. The picture right hand reveils: - the pole m0 is right hand (f4), m12 is behind (f6). |
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 :
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Positioning
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Turn your body until m0 will be BEHIND. In this position,
etc. Beginners have to turn physically, after some exercises anyone will be able to do this by his imagination power. |
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r-comparison
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Ask yourself: must I move inwards or outwards? ( = is the target radius greater or smaller than the actual one?) |
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m-comparison
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Ask yourself: must I move to “later” (clockwise) or to earlier? ( = is the target m later or earlier than the actual one?)
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Let's see an example:
Let's suppose, your target is: m9:20 r55
(be aware: this target doesn't appear on map but with the code it is possible to imagine where it is ! )
If you've lost orientation on named crossing m8:8 r35,
so you must go
- outwards (radius r55 is more than r35 )
and
- to "later" (clockwise) ( m9 is "later" than the actual m8 )
This may seem unfamiliar, but the orientation based on cardinal points has been used for some thousand years and imaginary clocks are used by soldiers, boy scouts, pilots, blind people etc. for more than 100 years.
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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. |
Emergency cases: according to a study from the European Union, every year one million callers of emergency services aren't able to describe their own position, causing painful seeking times. This is not caused by ignorance but by the poorness of the actual orientation means. At the World Trade Center in NY, additional panic has raised because the helpers didn't know which one of the towers has been tower 1 or 2.
People who dominate the orientation "esperanto" according to the Munich Orientation Convention are smarter. It will be possible to guide them by mobile phone, loudspeaker etc., thereby less panic than today will arise.
Vision:
Indoor signage: the same addressing methode will soon also be used indoor , e.g.
www.volksnav.com/DeutschesMuseum www.volksnav.com/AirportMUC etc.
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Mobile
applications: 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 can also be used within the whole globe, see www.watchrose.com. Acc. to this, the international City Code of Seoul is
WatchRose© m1:18 80 r85 50
What is this good for? Just comparing the codes for example of Seoul and
Euijeongbu WatchRose© m1:18 60 r85 35
it is possible to evaluate that
- the position of Euijeongbu is "earlier" and closer to Munich than Seoul, more exactly
:18 80 - :18 60 = 20 km earlier
r8550 - r8535 = 15 km closer
- the distance between both cities, the hipotenuse, will be between 20 and 20+15 km.
- for advanced users:
the egocentrical direction Euijeongbu/Seoul (to later/tooutside) is QuoVides(R) 6, see www.quovides.com