VolksNav app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Henrique Kohler
First release : 19 Jun 2017
App size: 11.1 Mb
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)