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I must agree with the concensus.

I take the map Start in one area and start marking 1,2,3 all the way around at each location.
If 1 location has 3 cables then they get three numbers. I don;t do this to make it easy for the IT guy down the road, just easier on me during install.
I managed the cabling for a small city and they used a 1R102W3-4-1 scheme. (Floor 1 room 203 wall 3 Drop 4 jack 1) Yes it (in theory) made it easily referenced in the future, but 2 things happened. 1 - they wanted the patch panels and voice blockes to be sequencial. After a few years of adding drops to Room 102 you would run out of room on the backbaord regardless of how many open slots you left for expansion. 2- Rooms would get consolidated or partitioned out adding an extra layer of complexity.
Best solution is to provide an as-built drawing. that way jack 1 is always jack 1 regardless of where it is

It just does not matter. As long as you can look at a faceplate and find the corresponding connection at the other end you're good to go. So what if a room or office has plate 3 and 199? So long as it matches the other end it's fine.

I realize this was a while ago, but for new data installs, I tend to label the plate to match the patch panel. This way I don't have to remember some funny lookup when I get back to the closet. Then on the switch I hook up the ports sequentially so I can check the status of a port though the switch management.

I keep a floor plan sheet in the switch room listing where the ports terminate if I need to go the other direction.

In a purely cat 5/patch panel setting, I have *always* numbered sequentially with the patch panels using a letter prefix that corresponds to its termination point.

A1-A24, B1-B48, etc.

I used to do the V1 D1 schema but decided that it was a whole lot less work to deal with the numbers painted on the panel than to use my Rhino to remark it.

I tend to use 3 digit numbers even when installing only a single patch panel it gives you room to grow in to a second or third panel in the future.
D-101 to D-148 patch panel 1
D-201 to D-248 patch panel 2
D-301 .........