@andy-j I agree with you 100%. I've been licensed in NJ for 30 years with over 25 of them being in responsible charge. I've worked for six different...

The results you achieved surprise me. I would expect larger variances.

I moved in with my GF five years ago and am a PLS, she works in an entirely different career field but for the last three years we have shared the sam...

@andy-j my remarks do not strictly relate to you, when I say you, it is a generalized term but here is where my confusion comes in....."There is a rec...

@jimcox LOL! Don't transverse it!

@gathered_1111 what I am saying is that I spent at least a few hours studying every day for those years. I got up at 5 AM on week days, hit the books...

@cv My crews all carry a rod and level and they know how to use them, they do not have Lenker rods though. Any well maintained TS run by a decent IM ...

@olemanriver the Philly rod is not dead, every one of my crews carries a rod and level and knows how to use them.

@jimcox you are on the wrong side of the plan sheet, flip the paper over and look up! LOL!

@lurker you have to fill out the application but not necessarily all of the experience details if you are already licensed in another state so that yo...

@ric-moore I considered applying to the neighboring state of NY for licensure by comity. An Engineer friend that is licensed in several states actual...

Keep in mind that there is no single course that is going through the national portions of the exam. The exams are not standardized, each exam bookle...

@firestix why would it be an insurance nightmare to overlay your survey on a rectified digital ortho as long as both are in the same datum?

I'm confused as to why one would assume that you could sit for the State portion of the exam without filing an application with all pertinent supporti...

Yes, used the State's photos often on large boundary surveys with the deed overlaid to create rough search points.

@cv in the modern world a Total Station can do what you talk about as quickly and easily as setting up a level with reduced elevations provided in rea...

@mark-mayer Amen!

Cartography 101, North is always up!

It is a Lenker rod, not linker. I didn't even know that they are still in use but they were most commonly used on construction staking decades ago wh...

I don't use GIS in land surveying at all because of the way that most are set up with rubber sheeting and the like. I think of them as a pretty pictu...