Hello from Australia

@micheal-daubyn-2?ÿ

Also from BOSSI, where they break down the distinctions, demonstrate that they recognise other, non regulated types of surveyors, and define which categories do require registration.

https://www.bossi.nsw.gov.au/candidates/disciplines_of_surveying

And for a pretty definitive statement from BOSSI

In response to the people talking about BOSSI I'm from WA and have no licenses.?ÿ What I meant is I have graduated from TAFE nothing else

Don't get discouraged. I found this site because I was being heckled. Everyone is deserving of a little heckling. Lots of good info and big egos here.?ÿ

@jed I wasn't discouraged just setting the record straight.?ÿ Thanks for saying that though

All good, Hawko. Don't mind us. 😀

WA seems like a pretty good spot to start. Seems like there is lots of opportunities over there.?ÿ

@martin_au?ÿ Didn't mind at all was interesting to know about other sates surveying legalities.?ÿ Started working at a gas plant construction area

I appreciated reading through the discussion above on titles for varying levels of examination.

When I graduated in engineering, I was labeled as an engineer.?ÿ Years later, when I passed the Professional Engineering Examination, I was an engineer who held a license proclaiming me to be a Professional Engineer.?ÿ The fact that I can put P.E. after my name allows me to work for myself and not under some other person.?ÿ That is the primary distinction.?ÿ The European model encourages one to add the "qualifiers" after a signature in the general case as opposed to strictly professional matters.?ÿ We see this used in the real estate and special education worlds where there are multiple certifications involved.?ÿ They may list a half dozen certifications with their signature.?ÿ In my surveying experience, I consider myself to be an L.S., although the Board officially changed the designation to be P.S. recently as Professional Surveyor sounds similar to Professional Engineer.?ÿ In both cases, this still requires us to possess a license, meaning we are licensed to provide such professional services independently of a supervisor.?ÿ This explains how the term RPLS came to be used by some to designate a Registered Professional Land Surveyor.

I have a cousin who started as a court reporter and went into live captioning and other things.?ÿ She puts a whole string of qualifications after her name in emails:

Welcome! We were discussing Australia and south azimuths the other day at work. If the line delineating north and south azimuths is the equator, what if you were surveying a large project somewhere on Earth where the equator runs through the project? Would you use both north and south azimuths?

Welcome matey, this is a good place for a sanity check from time to time.

Never seen South azimuths used down here.

The only coordinate systems I know that use it are some obscure Ordnance Survey ones from Britain

Update: just for interest, I've been doing some sifting through coordinate systems - the South African "Cape Datum" uses a south azimuth. As apparently did the original definition of NAD27 in the US

I've read that NGS formerly used azimuths from south, and the direction from Meades Ranch to Waldo was expressed as AZ from south.

But was that just a practice, or was there something in the definition of NAD27 that required everyone to use south az to claim it was NAD27?

Posted by: @hawko

In response to the people talking about BOSSI I'm from WA and have no licenses.?ÿ What I meant is I have graduated from TAFE nothing else

Fair enough. For the record, I did state that I was only speaking for NSW.

We are here to share info, so warning guys about what BOSSI are up to can never hurt.

Good luck!

Mick

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@bill93?ÿ

On the issue of azimuths reckoned from Southƒ??

https://geodesy.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/Notes_on_Azimuth_Reckoned_from_the_South_W_Lambert_1954.pdf