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Munich Orientation Convention in Warsaw

Warsaw 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

Frederic Chopin airport StatusQuo© WSW m6:20 r95

metro station Politechnika m5:15 r33

Wilson m10:9 r27

EXPO XX! m7:16 r43

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

Around the mermaid Syrenka at the Market place, a pole called 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: m2:5

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

This is a line situated in a distance of 5 x 100m from the horizon hour m2.

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 m7:4 r10 (alternative to the names Ratusz/ Solidarnosci / Bankowy / Andersa)

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

Please be aware about the fact that a. m. targets airport etc. aren't on map but the logical position codes make it possible to imagine where they are situated !

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:

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 reveils: m12 is behind, the pole is right hand

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 :

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:

Your target is: airport m6:20 r95

If you've lost orientation on named crossing Ratusz m7:4 r10,

so you must go

- outwards (radius r95 is more than actual r10 )

and

- to "earlier" (counterclockwise) ( m6 is "earlier" than the actual m7 )

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.

Metro stations:

If you follow the codes with your imagination power, you'll be able to know the route

Line m10/m5 ( other way: m5/m10)

Mtociny:	m10:11	r73
Wawrsyszew	m10:10	r63
Stare Bielany	m10:9	r54
Stodowiec	m10:7	r44
Marymont	m10:7	r36
Pl. Wilsona	m10:9	r27
Dvorzec Gdanski	m10:1	r14
Ratusz Arsenal	m7:4	r10
Swietokrzyska	m6:2	r15
Centrum	m6:1	r20
Politechnika	m5:15	r33
Pole Mokotowskie	m6:3	r44
Ractawicka	m6	r58
Wierzbno	m5:31	r67
Wilanowska	m5:31	r75
Stuzew	m5:35	r85
Ursinow	m5:40	r98
Stoktosy	m5:39	r104
Imelin	m5:36	r114
Natolin	m5:34	r124
Kabaty	m5:35	r135

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 Warsaw is

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

it is possible to evaluate that

- the position of Lodz is "earlier" and closer to Munich than Warsaw, more exactly

:310 - :255 = 55 km earlier

r810 - r695 = 115 km closer

- the distance between both locations, the hipotenuse, will be between 115 and 115+55 km.

- for advanced users:

the egocentrical direction Warsaw / Lodz (to earlier/to inside) is QuoVides(R) 8, see www.quovides.com