An elevator system including an elevator car mounted in the hoistway of a building having a plurality of floors, hoistway doors at the floors, and a floor selector for controlling the movement of the elevator car. Each hoistway door includes address indicia related to the address of its associated floor in the building. A detector on the elevator car reads the indicia during movement of the hoistway door. The address read from the hoistway door is loaded into a car position memory associated with the floor selector.