DE19817515A1 - Coordinate systems for town maps have central point and are formed by concentric circles, divided into sixty segments similar to minutes on clock face - Google Patents

Abstract

The coordinate systems for town maps have a central point and are formed by concentric circles. They are divided into 60 segments similar to the minutes on a clock face. Points of the compass are expressed by minutes and colors (North = blue = 0'; East = yellow/green = 15'; South = orange = 30'; West = red-violet = 45', plus all intermediate directions. The central point corresponds always to the most notable building in the town. From each coordinate the exact position of an object in position relationship to the central point can be read (Km./Min.). This corresponds to the distance from the central point in Km./compass direction in which the object lies, viewed from the central point. On each map sheet, it is immediately possible to recognize in which part of the town the observer is located.

Description

The invention relates to a concentric coordinate system. This is supported by a color system, a special arrangement of the map sheets and a registry that is matched to it. It is possible that individual parts of the invention are not patentable, but it is pointed out that all parts of the invention arose at the same time and are therefore inseparable from one another. The following should be presented in detail:

• 1. ARACHNION © coordinate system for concentric Cities
• 2.1.1. CHROMATOKYKLOS © color system for Cardinal points
• 3.2. HELIX © arrangement of the map sheets
• 4.1.3. KATA-LOGOS © registry

1. The ARACHNION® coordinate system for concentric cities ( Fig. 1)

According to the known state of the art, they only really exist angular coordinate systems for city maps. This is a Line grid placed over the city map. The individual Planqua drate are in lines at the top left starting with A1, A2, A3. . . and so on. The next line continues with B1, B2, B3. . . to the last line with Z24, Z25, Z26. . .

It is a linear arrangement of Planqua data that work in the manner of written language. The geographic center of Berlin, for example, has five various city maps to be purchased the linea ren coordinates L14; W18; R10; K84 C4; M19; N15.

Firstly, these coordinates are completely inconsistent, secondly do not say anything about the location of the center in the urban area. A city is not a linear structure like a street or a Flow. Ideally, a city is formed around a nucleus concentrically, therefore it speaks for itself, an analog Ko to use ordinate system.

The advantages of the newly developed coordinate system are easy to see. Every street, every object has individual coordinates from which the exact position in relation to a center point can be read off. The curvature of the circle segments on each map sheet shows at a glance which part of the city you are in. Example is Berlin. ( Fig. 1.a)

The ARACHNION © coordinate system is used just like Ko ordinate systems with grid squares are primarily used in To be able to find city maps streets and objects.

In addition, the coordinates also give the distance of the Street or the object from a city center, and in which direction of the compass: (km / min. ')

The ARACHNION © coordinate system consists of

• 1. a center point,
• 2. concentric circles or rings of 1000 m Distance to each other around the center point, as well
• 3. 60 lines that all converge in the center and which Divide circles into 60 equal parts, analogous to the minutes the clock face.
• 4. The center of the coordinate system is always the most prominent building in the historical or geographical center of the city concerned, z. B .:
  Athens: Acropolis
  Paris: Notre Dame Cathedral
  London: Office tower of the National Westminster Bank
  Berlin: TV tower on Alexanderplatz
  Amsterdam: Central Station
  Moscow: Kremlin
  Hamburg: Michel etc.,
  So usually a building above the normal eaves height of 22 meters, a government, sacred or bank building, a radio or radio station, etc., a widely visible and / or. imposing building that no one misses their attention.

For the cities not mentioned above, an exact description is required mood on site to determine the appropriate building. The center of the coordinate system is also the mean point of all concentric circles described under b).

• 1. The concentric circles or rings are from the inside Circle out numbered starting with 0, with the number of Rings depends on the size of the city.
• 2. To achieve a further subdivision, a number is used sheet placed over the system in such a way that the drive axis is the pointer corresponds exactly to the center point. Now there are 60 lines drawn between the center point and positions of the Minutes.

For better readability, the center of the coordinate sy stems in favor of the fine subdivisions in minutes of 5 or 15 minute segments.

The circle segments are given names or coordinates the number of the circle and the number of the corresponding minute. With this method, one is able to do something similar to that in the Seafaring, expressing cardinal points in minutes.

First the distance from the center is given in kilometers given, then in which direction of it (Km / min. ').

Examples (for Berlin)

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church therefore has the coordinates 5/41 '. This reads "5 kilometers / 41 minutes" and means: the church is located 5 km in a west-southwest direction from the television tower on Alexanderplatz.
Spandau Citadel: 13/46 '= 13 km approx. Television tower
Lichtenberg station: 6/16 '= 6 km approx. Television tower
the white lake: 5/7 '= 5 km approx. NE v. Television tower
Müggelturm: 18/21 '= 18 km approx. Television tower
Barnetstraße (Lichtr.): 13-14 / 30 '= 13-14 km S v. Television tower

The application of the ARACHNION © coordinate system is suitable for sheet-cut, flat or folded city maps.

1.1. The CHROMATOKYKLOS © color system for cardinal directions ( Fig. 2)

The CHROMATOKYKLOS © color system for heavenly directions gen offers the possibility of cardinal points through colors to express. It can be ideally used with the ARACH Combine the NION © coordinate system.

The CHROMATOKYKLOS © color system was inspired by the color circles that Dr. Wolfgang Plapper and Peter Waibel have developed: (Plapper, W., Waibel, P .: FARBATLAS - For Map design and production according to Fogra standards and European scale; in: Berlin manuscripts on cartography, Berlin 1987). All of the following numbers refer to colors hen refer to the above Color circles.

A color circle is formed analogous to the course of the sun.

Blue (cyan) 006 = 0 '= north Blue green 306 = 5 '= north-northeast green 606 = 10 '= east-northeast Yellow-green 603 = 15 '= east Yellow 600 = 20 '= east-southeast Yellow orange 630 = 25 '= south-southeast orange 660 = 30 '= south Red orange 360 = 35 '= south-southwest Red (magenta) 060 = 40 '= west southwest Red-violet 063 = 45 '= West violet 066 = 50 '= west northwest Blue violet 036 = 55 '= north-northwest

For the north, blue was chosen associatively with night, since the Sun is either never seen there or only at midnight (only in summer north of the Arctic Circle). The south receives that Color orange because the sun is at its highest point there enough. The east gets yellow-green, analogous to something that is becoming (Green as the color of hope). The west with the sinking the sun is expressed by red-violet.

The colors of the CHROMATOKYKLOS © color system are assigned to the individual map sheets described under 3 net. The following rule applies: "The closer to the center, the darker it is the hue ".

For cities in the southern hemisphere, blue becomes blue for the south and orange chosen for the north, east and west retained ten their colors.

1.2. The HELIX © arrangement for card sheets ( Fig. 3)

The HELIX® arrangement for map sheets enables the sinn full subdivision of an urban structure in the cart image in an overview common units.

The cut of the cards follows as closely as possible political-administrative boundaries within the city. Optimal it is when the leaf cut can be chosen so that exactly one district, arrondissement, district or other com municipal administrative unit on one side of the map.

After dividing the city into roughly equal units, the leaf that depicts the nucleus of the city is called Center sheet inscribed and placed at the beginning.

The districts directly adjacent to the center are dem Sorted clockwise until a first ring is completed. So one does now also deal with the districts that adjoin the center bordering districts and receives a second Ring. These steps are repeated until the entire Urban area is covered spiralenattig. The rings come with beginning with the first ring, from the inside out with roman numeric digits. The numbers behind the Roman Numbers refer to the ARACHNION © coordinate system most and give the intersection of the diagonals of each Map section.

Using the example of the city of Berlin, the maps are structured as follows in a spiral from the inside to the outside (the numbers in brackets refer to the above-mentioned color circles by W. Plappet and indicate the colors of the individual map sheets):
Center: Middle (555)
1st ring: I.2 / 5 'Prenzlauer Berg (436); I.2 / 15 Friedrichshain (633); I.2 / 30 'Kreuzberg (663); I.3 / 45 'Tiergarten (365); I.4 / 53 'Wedding (346);
2nd ring: II.5 / 0 'Pankow-Niederschöhausen (006); II.L5 / 6 'Weis sensee-Heinersdorf (306); II.6 / 10 'Hohenschönhausen (606); II.6 / 15 'Lichtenberg-Friedrichsfelde (603); II.6 / 23 'Treptow- Baumschulenweg (620); II.5 / 25 'Rixdorf (630); II.6 / 32 'Temple courtyard (660); II.5 / 3T Schöneberg (260); II.8 / 40 'Wilmersdorf-Schmargendorf-Grunewald-Ost (060); II.17 / 43 'Char louenburg-Ost (062); II.7 / 46 Charlottenburg-North (064); II.7 / 54 'Reinickendorf (036);
3rd ring: III.9 / 1 'Buchholz (005); III.10 / 4 'Karow-Blankenburg (205); III.8 / 6 'Malchow (405); III.9 / 9 'Wartenberg-Falkenberg (505); III.10 / I1 'Marzahn (504); III.9 / 15 'Biesdorf-Nord (502); III.9 / 20 'Karlshorst-Oberschöneweide (600); III.11 / 22 'Johannisthal-Niederschöneweide-Adlershof (520); III.8 / 2T Britz 540); III.9 / 31 'Mariendorf (550); III.9 / 36 'Steglitz-Lichterfel de-Nord (350); III.11 / 38 'Dahlem (150); III.12 / 42 'Grunewald-West (051); III.11 / 44 'Westend-Olympiastadion-Eichkamp (053); III.11 / 47 'Siemensstadt-Haselhorst (054); III.10 / 49 'Tegel-Süd (055); III.9 / 54 'Wittenau (035); III.8 / 58 'Rosenthal (015);
4th ring: IV.12 / 0 'Blankenfelde (004); IV.14 / 3 'book (104); IV.14 / 14 'Hellersdorf-Mahlsdorf-Nord (403); IV.12 / 17 Kauls Mahls-, Biesdorf-Süd (402); IV.13 / 19 'Koepenick-Nord (301); IV.15 / 20 'Köpenick-Süd, Grünau (400); IV.15 / 23 'Altglie nicke-Bohnsdorf (410); IV.12 / 25 'Rudow (420); IV.10 / 28 Buckow (430); IV.13 / 30 'Lichtenrade (330); IV.12 / 31 'Marienfeld (340); IV.12 / 33 'Lankwitz (450); IV.13 / 35 'Lichterfelde- Süd (240); IV.15 / 37 'Zehlendorf (140); IV.14 / 40 'Zehlendorf-Nikolassee-Nord (040); IV.14 / 44 'Spandau-Süd, Wilhelmstadt (042); IV.15 / 47 'Spandau-Nord, Hakenfelde (043); IV.12 / 51 'Tegel (034); IV.12 / 55 'Hermsdorf, Waidmannslust, Lübars (014);
5th ring: V.16 / 19 'Friedrichshagen (102); V.18 / 20 'Müggelsee (300); V. 19/22 'Grünau-Süd, Karolinenhof (310); V.17 / 39 'Nikolassee (130); V. 19/41 'Kladow (030); V.18 / 42 'Gatow (141); V.17/46 'Stanken (031); V.16148 'Forst Spandau (033); V.14 / 51 'Heiligensee (044); V.15 / 55 'Frohnau (013);
6. Ring: VI.22 / 18 'Rahnsdorf (101); VI.22 / 20 'Müggelheim (100); VI.24 / 22 'Schmöckwitz (210); VI.21 / 39 'Wannsee (020);
The HELIX arrangement for map sheets has a special feature of overlapping areas between adjacent sheets. These are represented by lines in each map sheet. At the end of each line are the names of the neighboring leaves ( Fig. 3a). Example is Berlin.

The names of the ever offer themselves as names for the map sheets respective districts.

1.3. The KATA-LOGOS registry ( Fig. 4)

The KATA-LOGOS registry allows direct access on every card sheet.

For this purpose, there are recesses from the on the right edge of each side Die-cut paper that make it possible to use the thumb of the right hand to choose the respective sheet and then click directly on strike. This kind of registranir can be found in many address books chests and office folders.

Because in metropolises, well over a hundred pages can be read at the edge must be, all hundred pages will not be on top of each other shown, but in the rings of the HELIX arrangement side by side. The front sides are punched out wider than the rear ones so as not to cover them up.

The punchings of the sheet edges are chosen so that on upper edge of the Atlas northern districts can be found in upper quarter eastern, middle southern, lower quarter western and at the bottom again northern, as if The wind rose and the color wheel in the north would be cut open and the resulting strip attached to the edge of the atlas would.

The individual procedures described above combine to an unmistakable technology that reduces the access time to geo graphic-cartographic information to a minimum reduced.

Claims (2)

1. Coordinate systems for city maps, characterized in that

• a) they have a center point and are made up of concentric circles, which are divided into 60 segments analogous to the minutes on the dial. ( Fig. 1)
• b) Cardinal directions are expressed in minutes and colors (north = blue = 0 '; east = yellow-green = 15,'; south = orange = 30 '; west = red-violet = 45', plus all intermediate directions). ( Fig. 1 and 2)
• c) the center point always corresponds to the most prominent building in the respective city.
• d) the exact position of an object in relation to the center point can be read from each coordinate, (km / min.) = distance from the center in km / direction in which the object is located, viewed from the center.
• e) it can be seen immediately on each map sheet in which part of the city the viewer is located. ( Fig. 1.a)

2. Registries for city maps, characterized in that

• a) the point (ie tab) in the registry at the edge of the atlas which contains the name of the district corresponds exactly to the point with the cardinal direction within the city where the district is also located. ( Fig. 4)
• b) the places (tabs) are assigned the same colors according to W. Plapper's color circles as the districts. ( Fig. 4)