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Orientation Convention in Shanghai
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Shanghai 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 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 navigation devices |
Buildings, crossings, metro stations etc. have logical addresses like
Pudong
airport
StatusQuo© SGH m4:95
r305
Hongqiao airport m8:30 r160
Longyang station Transrapid magnetic levitation m4:7 r69
Nanpu bridge m5:15 r38
Shanghai university m10:23 r132
which are easy to understand if you associate the city with a clock as follows:
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An outstanding point as e. g. the Oriental Pearl Tower 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 m9 was marked. |
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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 m3:50 ( read "emm 3 point 50" or "emm three 50" ). This is a line situated in a distance of 50 x 100m from the horizon hour m3, which points to sunrise. The convention for horizon minutes is very simple: the greater, the later. |
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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© SGH m9:10 r80 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 a. m. target airport isn't on map but the logical position code m4:95 r305 make it 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 2,5 km x 2,5 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: m8:25 r50, m8:50 r100 etc..
- the middle of the sector is radius/4. Example: m8:25 r100
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Example of a location map and a logical address:
POS
Plaza StatusQuo© SGH m4 r37 :.
Example for station codes:
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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©, 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:
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© |
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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. In case you look at above shown Orientator©, you'd have to turn to left, correct? |
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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:
If the position code of your target is given as m8:40 r90
and you've lost orientation on named crossing m9:10 r80,
so you must go
- outwards ( r90 is greater than r80 )
and
- to "earlier" (counterclock) ( m9 is "later" than m8 )
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.
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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. |
Vision:
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 Shanghai is
WatchRose© m1:27 30 r87 75
Comparing to Hangzhou WatchRose© m1:29 00 r87 70, it is possible to evaluate that the distance of both cities to Munich is almost the same and the position of Hangzhou is "later", more exactly
:2900 - :2730 = 170 km "later = distance between both cities
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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 |