DRAFT              Munich Orientation Convention

  Sydney 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, stations etc. have logical addresses like

 
                      Admiralty House StatusQuo©   SYD     m12:5 r20 

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

Around the Centrepoint Tower, the 

   centrum m0, 

the horizon is divided in 12 horizon hours  

     m1  to  m12

whereas m12 points to north.

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:     m3:5  

( read   "emm three point five"   or   "emm three five" ). The convention for the minutes is simply:

     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.: 

      StatusQuo© SYD m3:5 r18

SYD means that the code is only valid within Sydney

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: 

         Orientator©

StatusQuo© addresses will be integrated within the existing signage or be indicated on so-called Orientators©. 

Vertical Pointing©: additionally, round and square symbols (called pointers) will be placed on their periphery and shall help to detect the directions m0  respectively m12, according to the following convention: 
 
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 reveals that north = m12 is behind, m0 is on right side. 

  ( you can also read Vertical Pointing© using the F-clock: see below ): 

 

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 the example shown on the picture above: 

 

If the position code of your target is given as m12:5 r20  

and you've lost orientation on crossing m11:4 r14, 

so you must go

- outwards ( r20 is greater than r14 )

and

- to "later" (clockwise)   ( m12 is "later"  than m11 )

 

This may seem to be unfamiliar, but the orientation based on cardinal points is used since 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 in a life time. 

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 Sydney is 

          WatchRose© m2:11 85 r163 30  

Just comparing this code for example with Sydney airport 

            WatchRose© m2:11 90  r163  28, 

it is possible to evaluate that the position of the airport is nearer and "later" to Munich than Sydney, more exactly:

radius 163 30 - r163 28 = 2 km nearer

:1190 - :1185 = 5 km "later 

The distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is something between 5 and 5+2 km.   

  

mobile applications: very soon also mobile phones will indicate such logical position codes, see www.volksnav.com/london .

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*)  F clock / easy quantification of directions: 

you can also read Vertical Pointing© using the F-clock as follows: 

 f12      =         in ( f ) ront of you      =       upper place on Orientator©

 f6        =         behind                     =        bottom place 

 etc. In other words: the f-places are at the same time f-directions starting from your body. 

The interpretation of this example is:

m12 = f6 (behind)                 

m0 = f3