Hi everybody,
looking for a way to reform the enigmatic house numbering in Japan, I've accidentally invented a system which can reform all orientation tools including signage, post codes and room numbers. The system makes smarter, sharpens the orientation sense and bases on imaginary clocks, a method used by soldiers, pilots, boy scouts, the blind etc. for more than 100 years. For a mass application, only a Convention was missing. When we compare house numbers or milestones, we guide ourselves. Location codes and special pictograms allow us to guide ourselves around an indoor/urban/global pole as elegantly as in Rio de Janeiro around the Christ statue: - inwards/outwards and - clockwise/counter clockwise and this in harmony with codes for targets, crossings www.volksnav.de/lollipop, stations www.volksnav.de/TokyoMetro, stop points, bridges, tunnels etc. and in harmony with imagination, signage, cartography, intelligent post codes, online applications www.volksnav.de/search, mobile applications like www.volksnav.de/blindInTheCity for the blind etc. Possible licensees are listed on www.volksnav.de/flyer and the fees are basically symbolical. A proposal to OSGeo Cuba according to www.volksnav.de/r100Cuba generated the idea to declare the tool called r100 as OpenStandard. Confirm yourself the nakedness of the emperor: just compare the FOSS4G map on http://2015.foss4g.org/ with www.volksnav.de/r100Seoul. So I'd appreciate if all maps for cities listed in www.volksnav.de/mapplet would include r100 or open this possibility. This list grows continuously and suggestions are more than welcome. Please consider that uncontrolled changes of elements of the Convention would work against the idea of an orientation standard, that means, against you as consumer. Forums can be idea killers. I'm sure this forum will be an idea amplifier and am eager to hear your ideas around this proposal. Henrique
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