[OSGeo-Discuss] Fundamental need: simple answers to the simple question "where?"

2017-01-16 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Dear all, the degeneration goes on: despite of the existence of open location codes [1] , the Mongolpost, La Poste [2] , Philippine Red Cross [3] etc. are adopting a proprietary system based on names (!!??). This seems to confirm the following statements: 1 - there is a huge but

[OSGeo-Discuss] r100 as State of the Map 2016

2016-10-17 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
To - OSGeo board and members / Suchith Anand - State of the Map Latam 2016, Sao Paulo - Foss4g Asia / Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad Copy: Surveyor General of India r100 as State of the Map 2016

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-06 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Suchid, thank you for your first support, Also OGC, ICA etc. have difficulties to understand the magnitude of my invention: it's a simple idea but it opened more than 25 different applications, most of them have nothing to do with maps or software. The reason of this abundance is

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-09-05 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Suchit, nowhere in the world there are so many visually impaired people as in India. For more than 100 years, most of them use imaginary clocks for orientation purposes and with this get GeoAwareness for directions and angles. Counting steps, they get additional GeoAwareness for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-18 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
[mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. August 2016 11:42 An: Munich Orientation Convention Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-17 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hello Brian, thank you for the confirmation that MOC isn’t (and shouldn’t be) free and open. Therefore: OSGeo decisions actually are taken in absence of representatives of the inventor and the consumer, consequently can change when the wind changes. My last approach concerned ideas

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-16 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
GEO shoudl be involved with... Yours, -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) ITC Building (room 1-065) @barendkobben +31-(0)53 4874 253 From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Munich Orienta

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

2016-08-16 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Suchith, concerning your call for ideas: why only software? For the first time, a geography teacher in Brazil got last week a diploma using imaginary clocks as final year project. The test school was the Joao XXIII www.volksnav.de/JoaoXXIII and the project also called the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo for all - also for the consumer

2016-08-04 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Retransmitting without the annex acc. to <http://www.volksnav.de/evolution> www.volksnav.de/evolution Sorry for the congestion. Von: Munich Orientation Convention [ <mailto:volks...@volksnav.de> mailto:volks...@volksnav.de] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. August 2016 08:43

[OSGeo-Discuss] Orientation standard

2015-10-20 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hello Scott, my license model is very simple: CASE by CASE. The fees can be zero or symbolical (Burundi) and the merit principle should be valid, therefore not collide with the openmania. Now that OGC is reviewing the own corset, it would a good opportunity to consider a forgotten

[OSGeo-Discuss] Orientation standard

2015-10-20 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hello Scott, I like your questions. The most important is that the experts agree that r100 is a good and consumer friendly Convention, at least for fast orientation purposes and as an alternative to open squared systems or simply "here". The specifications for this piece of a polar

[OSGeo-Discuss] sponsoring / relevance / standard

2015-10-18 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hello Jeff, I'm deeply grateful that I've been invited to propose to this discussion forum the possibility to let the Munich Orientation Convention be an OSGeo standard. So Burundian authorities could discover and prove the benefits of the system. They have already effectuated

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] sponsoring / relevance / standard

2015-10-18 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
vor of the consumer, e. g. 50% >of the humankind who think to be unable to read maps >www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere. Henrique Von: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2015 11:29 An: Munich Orientation Convention; standa...@lists.osg

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo 2.0 = QO_SGeo with flagship Orientation 2.0

2015-08-03 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Michael, if you have a problem, think big. Basing on the invention Orientation 2.0, I'd like to propose to launch the Quite Open OSGeo as a standardization board respectively monopolist http://www.volksnav.de/monopole/monopolist.pdf www.volksnav.de/monopole/monopolist.pdf which -

[OSGeo-Discuss] Location codes - best standard3all

2015-07-27 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Jonathan, my system isn't easy to understand if you try to understand all 25 benefits at once. Let's describe only the location code benefit: the codes consist on hours, minutes and radius, nothing else. It was made for children, so please try to think like a child. Instead of

[OSGeo-Discuss] Location Codes - best standard for all

2015-07-26 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Jeff, acc. to the rafagas, ISO plans to standardize the mapcode www.mapcode.com. The abundance of proposals for location codes like NAC www.nacgeo.com, OLC www.openlocationcode.com, miscellaneous www.isotc211.org/Address/standards.htm, what3words, geodudes etc. let believe that the

[OSGeo-Discuss] Logical house numbers

2015-05-19 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi all, for those who are still thinking how to introduce the free tool r100 http://www.volksnav.de/r100 www.volksnav.de/r100, here an example: Nezahualcoyotl is a surburb of Mexico City. Acc. to www.neza.gov.mx, the City Hall of Neza has the following address: Av. Chimalhuacán S/N

[OSGeo-Discuss] r100 as OpenStandard: start in Nepal?

2015-04-29 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Dear all, a member of OSGeo was the opinion, not only r100 should be OpenStandard. The following answer may be of interest: The actual question is: is r100 an useful tool or not? If not, the discussion can end here. If yes (also considering the needs of average people, the blind,

[OSGeo-Discuss] r100 for Twin Cities

2015-04-22 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
Hi Bob in St. Paul, r100 could consolidate the old idea of Twin Cities: www.volksnav.de/r100TwinCities. A convenient common pole could be the Lake street bridge. Henrique -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im

[OSGeo-Discuss] Universal Post Code

2015-04-21 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
/r100 could be the first step towards an Universal (and useful) Post Code and that UPU should manage this. Thank you in advance, Henrique Von: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Munich Orientation Convention Gesendet: Freitag, 17. April 2015

[OSGeo-Discuss] square vs. polar grids

2015-04-21 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
The abundance of ideas for location codes proves the demand for simple answers to the simple question where?, see www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere. Street names, lat/lon and post codes aren't simple. The cities Mannheim, Brasilia etc. begun to answer the question without street names but they

[OSGeo-Discuss] r100 generator

2015-04-17 Thread Munich Orientation Convention
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