WO2001011589A1

WO2001011589A1 - Code generating process for designating and locating places and elements on a territory

Info

Publication number: WO2001011589A1
Application number: PCT/ES2000/000304
Authority: WO
Inventors: Albert Domingo Roige
Original assignee: Albert Domingo Roige
Priority date: 1999-08-05
Filing date: 2000-08-04
Publication date: 2001-02-15
Also published as: AU6573100A; ES2153793B1; ES2153793A1

Abstract

Said code is comprised of two subsets of signs, some corresponding to coordinates and others assigned randomly. In order to obtain the subset of signs relative to coordinates, a particular system of coordinates must be set by means of families of rows and columns which are differentiated by assigning different signs to them so that the quadrilaterals resulting from the intersections are designed through a combination of the signs related to the rows and columns to which they belong. The other subset is obtained by assigning signs to the different elements of a same quadrilateral in order to differentiate them. The combinations of signs thus obtained are different for each element of a territory and will be used to locate them when combining the use of such code into a duly referenced cartography with the signalling in the territory of the places and elements with the corresponding code as place names.

Description

Procedure for generating codes for the designation and location of places and elements in the territory.

The present invention relates to a cartographic system for the location of certain places and areas.

This system is based on the division of the map into coordinates that determine a main grid, and on the division of each resulting square forming a sub-grid, which is already done in the UTM coordinate system.

The object of this invention is a very simplified system that, unlike the UTM system in which only figures are used (with which each zone to be located has a minimum of seven numbers) uses the combination of other signs such as letters and numbers, whose new system is not only a coordinate system through which an area is located, but also in that area a particular particular place is located, such as a fork or a crossroads or roads, a house, a pond, a shelter, a raft and others.

With this system, the rapid location of a specific place is achieved, resulting in said system of particular application in rural areas and mainly in forested areas, being of great help in controlling and extinguishing fires.

Also based on this system they can also Sign the places with a sign where the five signs will appear and with which they will be identified, so that a person with a mobile phone can give their location very quickly and accurately.

This system will also facilitate the evacuation of people and animals in an emergency.

This system has as its main characteristic the fact that each square of the sub-grid presents its unique places marked with respective signs (for example a number or a letter).

Also characteristic is the fact that the main grid presents in its ordinate and in its abscissa, for each square, a different letter, and the sub-grid presents in its ordinate and in its abscissa, for each square, a different number. In this way you can locate a square of the sub-grid with four signs, two letters corresponding to the main grid, and two numbers, and within this square a certain place will be located with the fifth sign that identifies it.

These and other characteristics will be better derived from the detailed description that follows, to facilitate which is accompanied by four sheets of drawings in which a practical case of embodiment has been represented that is cited only by way of non-limiting example of the scope of the present invention In the drawings:

Figure 1 illustrates a map with the main grid,

Figure 2 shows an enlarged part of this map with the signaling that corresponds to each square of the main grid,

Figure 3 depicts two of these enlarged squares and with the sub-grid,

Figure 4 indicates an enlarged area of the sub-grid with the particular places marked in each square thereof, and

Figure 5 represents the set of signs that will locate and identify a certain place.

According to the drawings, the map of Catalonia is shown in figure 1, which is divided into regions, on this map a main grid has been drawn that corresponds to the UTM coordinates, each 10 X 10 Kms square comprising. , whose grid has been marked with a different uppercase letter for each square A, B, C ... Z, A 'and with a lower case letter other than, b, c ... z for each corresponding square the ordinate axis - ORD-.

Taking as an example the region indicated with a scratch in figure 1, the signaling that corresponds to each square of 10 x 10 Kms is observed in figure 2. Each of these squares is divided in turn into ten parts each side resulting in squares of 1 x 1 km, thus forming a sub-grid in which the squares of the abscissa are numbered from 0.0 to 9.0 and those corresponding to the ordinate They are numbered from 0.0 to 0.9. In figure 3 two squares corresponding to the Jr and Kr of figure 2 are illustrated.

Figure 4 shows a portion of the map already fully marked, representing six squares of the sub-grid, all of them corresponding to the square JR of the main 10 x 10 grid and specifically to the squares 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 3.2, 4.2, and 5.2 of the sub-grid lxl; In each of these last squares, the place of interest to control and identify has been marked with a number. For example, in squares 3.1 and 4.1, the fork of a road has been marked with 1; in square 3.2 the fork of a road has been marked with 1, with 2 the fork of a river, with 3 a house, and with 4 a pool; in square 4.2, a bridge has been marked with 1, a fork of roads with 2, and a well with 3; and in square 5.2 with 1 a fork of roads has been marked, and with 2 a shelter.

Taking this example, if you want to locate, for example, the well of square 4.2, the following data must be provided: the signs Jr, corresponding to the square 10 x 10, the signs 4.2, corresponding to the square ll, and the sign 3, which identifies the well, that is, with these five signs Jr 4.2 3 the exact location of the well will be identified. These places are advantageous that they are also signaled on the land itself, so next to the indicated well a sign (with these signs) should be placed as shown in Figure 5.

Even if the UTM system grids have been used for this system, the use of other kinds of grids, for example 100 x 100 Kms or 2 x 2 Kms, is foreseen. The signs that can be used are also variable, in addition to the alphabetical and the numbers, as well as the order in which they are arranged.

Claims

1. - Cartographic system for the location of certain places and zones, which includes on the map the layout of some coordinates that determine in it a main grid, each of whose resulting squares is in turn divided forming a sub-grid, characterized because each square of the sub-grid presents its particular places marked with respective signs.

2. System, according to claim 1, characterized in that the main grid presents in its ordinate and in its abscissa, for each square, a different sign so that each of them will be identified with the corresponding sign of the ordinate and with that of the abscissa, the same thing happening with the subframe.

3. System according to claim 2, characterized in that the signs corresponding to the squares of the main grid and those of the sub-grid are different from each other.

4. System, according to the preceding claims, characterized in that each location to be located and identified will be marked with five different signs, two corresponding to the square of the main grid, another two corresponding to the square of the sub-grid, and the fifth sign is the corresponding to the signage of the place to be identified.

5. System according to the claims previous, characterized in that each place to be located will present the corresponding signage on the land with the five signs that will identify it.

6. System, according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the signs are letters, upper and lower case, and numbers.