RAS EL HEKMA · GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT

The coast has shape.
Read the land behind it.

Explore an original height map around the cape. Move a line across the map and read the same section below. Keep the land’s broad shape separate from a home’s actual level or view.

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Map appearanceHeight sectionMove the section Show mapped major roads

Use the slider to move the line. You can also tap the map to choose a section. The map does not move when you scroll the page.

Height colour key · model metres

≤04080120180

Green colours show model height, not vegetation. Light and dark show relief shading. Sea is one flat colour.

THE SAME LINE, TWO VIEWS

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to the section.

Selected section: North to South · 27.8539° E
Line length: 35.4 km · includes any sea gaps
Land-model samples: 186
Model height range: 5 to 95 m · rounded to 5 m

Samples are about 131 m apart at the middle of this map. This spacing is not an accuracy guarantee.

Historical model, not a site survey

The source tile files were last modified in November 2017. They do not confirm today’s ground, construction or earthworks.

Values close to the coast may contain errors where different source models meet. A low or negative value is not a flood assessment.

The white line is a height section. It does not describe a road, walk or access route.

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What this can help you ask.

Ground level

Ask for the exact plot’s survey and finished ground levels. Regional model heights cannot replace these documents.

A home’s view

Ask which floor, direction and line of sight the quoted view refers to. This map has no buildings, home positions or sight-line calculation.

Walking and access

Ask for actual paths, slopes, lifts and ramps. The section does not tell you where you can walk or enter.

The coastal edge

Use the developer-plan reader for the printed shoreline types. No developer plan is placed on this geographic height map.

Model, dates and credits

Mapzen Terrain Tiles accessed 13 October 2026 from the AWS open-data registry. Thirty Web Mercator Terrarium tiles are decoded using R × 256 + G + B / 256 − 32768. The reader takes every fourth source pixel, about 131 metres apart at the map’s middle latitude. It uses nearest saved-grid samples, not a new survey or finer measured detail.

The contributing tile metadata lists SRTM, GMTED2010 and EU-DEM files. It does not identify a source or observation date for each pixel. The tile files’ 2017 modification dates are not observation dates. No single local vertical datum or exact-point accuracy was independently verified. The height chart uses model metres and different horizontal and vertical axis scales.

The accepted OpenStreetMap coast clips the displayed land; major-road lines retain their geographic coordinates. Water heights are not shown. Coastline changes, sea conditions, flooding, engineering suitability, home views, ownership and city boundaries are not established.

Mapzen Terrain Tiles. SRTM and GMTED2010: U.S. Geological Survey. Produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union — EU-DEM layers. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.

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