This is the NJ definition of professional land surveying: (e) The term "practice of land surveying" within the meaning and intent of this chapter shal...

Luck is not what is being tested, knowledge and skills are what you are there to prove to the Board. You seem to be taking the roll the dice approach...

No offense but the better course of action is to study the book and master it as much as possible, from cover to cover, as well as studying the other ...

The burden of proof lies on the preponderance of evidence.

If the official city map was filed at around the time of the completion and shows a 60' ROW (or easement), it really does not matter what pipes set la...

Don't get hung up on case law and given judge could rule differently. You have prevented the fact of what the city map has established the road width...

The hard proof is provided in the public record. Different ROW widths are documented, especially in cities for different reasons, arterial streets wi...

If the city map was filed back in the early 1900's and there is nothing to indicate that the pipes found are original, the map is going to prevail as ...

Understanding contouring and other fundamentals are valuable things to grasp, but, who actually manually drafts them these days? If you know the basi...

If the early 1900's map shows the ROW to be 60' and there is no recorded action vacating portions to make it 50', the early 1900's map controls, despi...

The Manning equation relates to pipe sizing, flow and slopes. Totally different than defining watersheds and peak runoff.

"While I completely agree with you that a licensee needs to be able to manually calculate. You need to understand what the results mean when you push ...

I am curious as to why you are studying this, aside from understanding contours. Stormwater management is not something that you can learn in a semes...

I don't know that there is any state that would allow somebody to become licensed without field experience. My guy is out in the field working with t...

A little rough but very good point. I studied and then restudied every book I could get my hand on for hours a day for four years and used a highligh...

I see where you are coming from and call me old school if you will, but it is my belief that nobody should be running any software routine if they don...

Making money is a relative term, you can "make money" on one job and lose money on another, sometimes intentionally. There are times when I will basi...

I am a non degreed PLS, you'll never see my saying that I agree with the degree requirement but I will agree with you that if you have been surveying ...

In just one example, in the market crash of 2008, I was running survey in a satellite office for a large firm. When the market crashed, they closed t...

If you are asking me, I don't care about a "big firm" from thousands of miles away reaching out to several others as well through google searches. If...