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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 3, 2019, 10:42 PM by graemefitz1@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Yes, nice & clear thanks Mateusz - when I'd seen the name listed previously, I'd always assumed it was something to do with allocating areas for conscription for military service!<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">It used to, first addressing in this areas started for military-related purposes (conscription).<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Just clarifying for my own interests sake - so the village / suburb only has a number, rather than a name? So your example would be village (suburb?) 280, <span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(248, 249, 250)"><span class="font" style="font-family:sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12.3704px">Staré Brno district?</span></span></span> <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">In this addressing system location has address made from two parts<br></div><div style="16px">- location (say Staré Brno distric)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- number within location<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Unlike street number that has three parts<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- location (town, settlement etc)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- street name<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- number on the street<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>& are they numbered sequentially, or randomly? EG as you travel north from this city do you pass through 280, 281, 282 & so on; or is 280 5k north, 281 10k SW, 282 5k E, 283 15k N, but with 135 & 512 between it & 280?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">randomly, or more specifically order is not necessarily related to location - but be based on say <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">order of construction permits<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I made edit during making this reply - see<br></div><div style="16px"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:conscriptionnumber&diff=1816857&oldid=1816164">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:conscriptionnumber&diff=1816857&oldid=1816164</a><br></div> </body>
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