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Know the height and slope of each place with Terrain and elevation

Height above sea level, slope, the way the ground faces and how a place sits against the land around it.

Terrain and elevation measures the ground at each place that reaches it, or at the cities or point you pick, from the Copernicus 90 m elevation model served by Open-Meteo for the whole world.

  • elevation_m: the height above sea level; below zero is below sea level.
  • slope_pct and aspect: how steep the ground is and which way it faces.
  • relative_height_m: how far above or below the land around it the place sits; Compare with the land within sets how far around counts.
  • terrain: one of Below sea level, Low-lying, Hilltop, Valley floor, Steep slope, Raised ground, Low ground, Gentle slope or Flat; terrain_summary says it all in one sentence.

Put a Filter on Elevation (m) or Slope (%) after it, or on the field terrain, to keep the low-lying sites, the flat plots or the hilltops. It costs one credit for each place measured, and a place measured once is kept 30 days.

One height covers a square of about 90 m and measures the surface, buildings and trees included, so the block describes the ground around a place, not one building; in a dense city centre low streets can read a few metres higher. Low ground is not a flood forecast: add Floods and sea conditions or Weather forecast for that.

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