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VolksNav app for iPhone and iPad


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Navigation Education
Developer: Henrique Kohler
Free
Current version: 7.0, last update: 1 year ago
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)