iPhone app VolksNav

Basing on tests with street children, VolksNav makes StreetSmart was developed for children, the blind, those who cant read maps etc.

It divides 500 cities allover the world like a cake into 12 sectors, forming location codes which are a better answer to the question where? than names, post codes, lat/lon or here.

The app uses GPS and compass and - a worldwide innovation - indicates the direction to the centre of town, and this with text and graphic !!

Following the instructions on www.volksnav.de/StreetSmart, such tools allow a self-guiding like in Rio de Janeiro around the Christ statue:

- inwards/outwards

and

- clockwise / counter clockwise.

The main benefits are

- awareness improvement concerning locations, directions, distances, cardinal points and angles;

- sharping of orientation sense.

- a language for international understanding (Orientation Esperanto),

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