# HALOWERK Eastern Land – Cyprus Mean Surface Slope

> HALOWERK Eastern Land – Cyprus Mean Surface Slope is a paid API for AI agents from ostland.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the mean first-order surface gradient (slope) across an analysis grid for a coordinate validated within the Natural Earth boundary of Cyprus.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://ostland.halowerk.com/v1/cy-mean-slope
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-eastern-land-cyprus-mean-surface-slope-a3aa621f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9HY-s2zkxzeHVTdy7tMgP

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability halowerk-eastern-land-cyprus-mean-surface-slope-a3aa621f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the mean surface slope at latitude 34.9 and longitude 33.1 in Cyprus? I need the first-order terrain gradient for that location.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the mean first-order surface slope for a specific coordinate strictly within Cyprus, and you require boundary-validated geospatial terrain data at low per-call cost. Prefer it over generic elevation APIs when the specific metric needed is mean slope (not elevation, ruggedness, or aspect) and the location is confirmed to be within Cyprus.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinate outside Cyprus Natural Earth boundary — request rejected with validation error, no charge
- Latitude or longitude out of published European coverage range (lat 34–72.5, lon -31.5–40.5) — schema validation error
- Malformed or missing coordinate values — request rejected with input error
- Service unavailability — HTTP 5xx error

## How this service works

Mean first-order surface gradient across the analysis grid. The coordinate is validated against the Natural Earth boundary for Cyprus; results outside it are rejected before payment.

## Output

A numeric value representing the mean first-order surface gradient (slope) computed across the analysis grid for the given coordinate within Cyprus. Coordinates outside the Natural Earth boundary for Cyprus are rejected before any charge is applied.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 72.5,
   "minimum": 34,
   "description": "WGS84 latitude inside the published European coverage."
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 40.5,
   "minimum": -31.5,
   "description": "WGS84 longitude inside the published European coverage."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-eastern-land-cyprus-mean-surface-slope-a3aa621f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from ostland.halowerk.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/ostland.halowerk.com/llms.txt)