Munich Orientation Convention                     

  Venezia 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 Venezia, 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

Places, crossings, bridges etc. have logical addresses like

 
                   Cá d'Oro StatusQuo© VNZ m11:3 r8    

which are easy to understand if you associate the city with a clock according to following convention:

Around the San Marco square, the so-called 

     centrum m0, 

the horizon is divided in 12 directions   

     m1  to  m12

These directions are also called horizon hours and 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:  m4:5  

( read   "emm four point five"   or   "emm four five" ). 

This is the code for an imaginary line which is paralell to the m4 line in a distance of 500 meters. 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. as shown on the picture: 

      Cá d'Oro StatusQuo© VNZ m11:3 r8

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.

for advancers: the minutes will never exceed half the radius !!

 

Natural Cartography©: a map with such a polar grid has innovative characteritics, see www.volksnav.com/map  

 

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©.

Vertical Pointing©: additional to the position information, a round symbol called center pointer or centrador 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 San Marco square 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 shown on picture: 

If your target is:       Cá d'Oro StatusQuo© VNZ m11:3 r8  

and you've lost orientation on crossing     m3 r14, 

so you must go

- inwards ( r8 is less than actual  r14 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise)   ( m11  is "earlier"  than 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. 

 

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 Venezia is 

            WatchRose© m5:100 r305  

Just comparing this code for example with 

             Marco Polo airport WatchRose© m5:97  r300 

 it is possible to evaluate that 

- the position of the airport is "earlier" and nearer to Munich than Venezia, more exactly

    :100 - :97 = 3 km earlier

    r305 - r300 = 5 km nearer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, is about  6 km. 

  

Mobile applications:

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