NCEES is writing a PS exam with no boundary law on it

NCEES put out a call last week for subject-matter experts to help build a new exam: Principles and Practice of Surveying — Geospatial. Mapping science, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and similar ground.

Their words: it will test "minimum competency on non-boundary content for any NCEES member boards that choose to issue such a license."

No board has committed to issuing one. But the exam is being built, and when it exists, a board that wants to license geospatial practice without boundary law will have something to license against.

I can see the argument for it. There are people doing photogrammetry and remote sensing work right now under no license and no exam at all, and a non-boundary credential is one answer to that.

I can see the argument against too, and I expect most of you will make it better than I would.

So — should there be a surveying license that never tests boundary law? And if your board issued one, what would you want it to cover, and what would you want it barred from doing?

https://rpls.com/surveyors-mark-america-250-at-mount-rushmore/#ps-geospatial

Same argument from a different angle, a couple of weeks back: Washington will let you sit for the PS before you have the years