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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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 </span><span lang=EN-GB>makes smarter, sharpens the orientation sense </span><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>When we compare house numbers or milestones, we <span style='color:#1F497D'>can (or have to) </span>guide ourselves. Location codes and special pictograms <span style='color:#1F497D'>according to this Convention </span>allow us to guide ourselves around an indoor/urban/global pole as elegantly as in Rio de Janeiro around the Christ statue: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- inwards/outwards <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- clockwise/counter clockwise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and this in harmony with codes for targets, crossings <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/lollipop">www.volksnav.de/lollipop</a>, stations <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/TokyoMetro">www.volksnav.de/TokyoMetro</a>, stop points, bridges, tunnels etc. and in harmony with imagination, signage, cartography, intelligent post codes, online applications <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/search">www.volksnav.de/search</a>, mobile applications like <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/blindInTheCity">www.volksnav.de/blindInTheCity</a> for the blind etc. Possible licensees are listed on <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/flyer">www.volksnav.de/flyer</a> and the fees are basically symbolical. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A proposal to OSGeo Cuba according to <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/r100Cuba">www.volksnav.de/r100Cuba</a> generated the idea to declare the tool called r100 as OpenStandard. Confirm yourself the nakedness of the emperor: just compare the FOSS4G map on <a href="http://2015.foss4g.org/">http://2015.foss4g.org/</a> with <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/r100Seoul">www.volksnav.de/r100Seoul</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So I’d appreciate if all maps for cities listed in <a href="http://www.volksnav.de/mapplet">www.volksnav.de/mapplet</a> 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Henrique <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>