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Proceedings of the 9 Symposium on Applied Science, Business & Industrial Research – 2017
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ISSN 2279-1558, ISBN 978-955-7442-09-9

Introducing a House Numbering System

Madushani KPG, Bandara DMS, Karunananda GACM
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
madushanikpg557@gmail.com
ABSTRACT

House number is important for a property or person identification. It is often part of a
postal address. Therefore it should have effective house numbering system in a country.
But in Sri Lanka, existing house number system has faultiness. Layout of the city has
changed a lot with urbanization process and the house numbers are chaotic in many cities
are reason for the faultiness house numbering system. As a solutions for that problem, it is
very important to reconstruct a house numbering system. This project is done by using the
even/odd numbering system. According to that assign numbers are assinged for the roads
as even numbers on the right side, from the point of beginning and odd numbers on the left
side from the point of beginning, for the roads, houses and buildings. As a first step the
main roads, sub roads, houses and buildings in selected area were identified. Odd numbers
for the sub roads of the left side along the main road from the point of beginning and even
numbers for the right side from the point of beginning were assinged. Then a numbers for
the houses of the left side along the main road and sub roads and even numbers for the
right side houses were assinged. As a last step, a house number with a specific letter of a
district were assinged.

KEYWORDS: Even/odd numbering system, House numbering, Specific letter styling

1 INTRODUCTION Galle District. It has many problems due to
disorder house numbering system.
House numbering is the system of
giving a unique number to each building in a 1.2 Objectives
street or area, with the intention of making it The general objective of this project is
easier to locate a particular building. The assigning a unique number to each building
house number is often part of a postal in a street or area, with the intention of
address. Therefore it should have effective making it easier to locate a particular
house numbering system in a country. building. It also aims at finding a specific
House numbering schemes vary by place, location to minimize wrong deliveries and
and in many cases even within cities. time wasting.
In Sri Lanka, the existing house 1.3 Significance of the Study
numbering system demonstrates an irregular
pattern. Disorder house numbering system Main significance of this study is
has caused many problems for property or assigning a unique number to each house or
person identification. There is no any building in the country. This number is a
sequential order or method to assign a unique number to that house or building in
numbers for houses and streets. In Sri the country. It will be helpful to minimize
Lanka, addressing system has district postal wrong deliveries and to make it easy to find
code. a specific person or a location in the
country.
1.1 Purpose of the Study
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
This study was done to assign a unique
number to each building in a street or area, According to Jeffers, Udell & Cecena
with the intention of making it easier to (2013) there is a unified house numbering
locate a particular building in an area of system in the country of Los Angeles. This

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