Munich Orientation Convention in Sofia      

  Sofia 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

 
                   Convention Center   StatusQuo© Sofia m4:15 r79

                    Airport                                                m3:5 r80

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

Around the St. Nedelya church (example only), 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:     m3:10  

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

This is a line situated in a distance of 10 x 100m from the horizon hour m3. 

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© Sofia m3:15 r42

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  

 

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: 

            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 pole 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 : 

1 - 

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? 
2 - 

r-comparison

 

Ask yourself:         

must I move inwards or outwards? 

 ( = is the target radius greater or smaller than the actual one?)
3 - 

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: 

Let's suppose, your target is:    Convention center  m4:15 r79      

If you've lost orientation on named crossing     m3:15 r42, 

so you must go

- outwards (radius r79 is more than r42 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise)   ( m4 is "later"  than the actual 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 advanced users: the minutes will never exceed half the radius (!!) and the middle of the sector is always r/4.

 

Vision:

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

 

 

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 Sofia is 

           WatchRose© m3:550  r11 00  

What is this good for? Just comparing the codes for example of Sofia and  

        Pancharevo WatchRose© m3:555   r11 06  

it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of Pancharevo  is "later" and farther to Munich than Sofia, more exactly

    :555 - :550 = 5 km later

    r1106 - r1100 = 6 km farther

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 6 and 6+5 km. 

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction  Sofia / Pancharevo  (to later/to outside) is QuoVides(R) 4, see www.quovides.com