Is this a feng shui verdict on Taj Mahal?

No. The page computes terrain geometry from public elevation data and reports the kernel verdict with its threshold. Classical template statements (backed by a mountain, facing water) are quoted from the public record with sources; whether the building "has good feng shui" is cultural interpretation, not computation.

Where does the sitting direction come from?

public record: the tomb platform's long axis runs north–south, main gate to the south, river Yamuna to the north. We did not measure it on site. If you want the measured value, take a compass reading (model declination here ≈ 1.0° E) or use the solar compass — and note the difference from the literature value.

Why trust these numbers?

The skyline comes from SRTM 30 m via opentopodata (sampled once, frozen into this page — the page itself runs zero network calls), and the judgments are computed by the same WASM kernel as the public API, with the same provenance discipline. The data limitations are printed next to the data, not in a footnote.

Taj Mahal 泰姬陵 terrain case

A river to the north instead of the south — the "water in front" template inverted. A useful case for showing the kernel reports the terrain as measured, not as the template expects.

The building, on the record

Location	Agra, India · 27.1751, 78.0421
Built	1632–1653
Sitting/facing (literature)	main tomb faces south across the charbagh gardens
Source	public record: the tomb platform's long axis runs north–south, main gate to the south, river Yamuna to the north

We did not measure anything on site — the sitting direction is quoted from the public record, and this page says so wherever the direction matters.

Terrain, as the model sees it

360-azimuth skyline sampled once from SRTM 30 m (a terrain model — no buildings) at 350 / 700 / 1200 / 2500 m rings, frozen on 2026-10-27. Ground elevation at the sample point: 168.0 m. Highest skyline angle: 0.7° at 210° azimuth.

Sector (±45°)	Max elevation	Mean
North (玄武 seat)	0.0°	0.0°
East (青龙)	0.4°	0.1°
South (朱雀 face)	0.7°	0.3°
West (白虎)	0.3°	0.0°

Interactive version with a draggable panorama and a sitting slider: open this location in the terrain tool.

White-tiger check (kernel verdict)

The same terrain_white_tiger judgment as the terrain tool, run on this frozen skyline with the literature sitting direction (0° = north): 无白虎抬头 — right (white tiger) max 0.4° vs left (azure dragon) max 0.3°, Δ = 0.2° (threshold 10.0°). The right sector rises above the left by more than the engineering threshold. The threshold is an engineering estimate pending advisor calibration — it ships with the verdict, never hidden.

If you go and measure

Model magnetic declination here (WMM2025): 1.0° east. The honest sequence: take a compass bearing of the building axis (or of the sun with the solar compass), subtract the declination your instrument actually shows, and compare with the literature direction above — the difference is the interesting part, and it is a measurement, not an opinion.

Honest boundaries

Flat floodplain, as measured: the terrain here really is level river plain — near-zero elevation angles in every sector is the honest result, not a data failure. The interesting geometry (river to the north, charbagh axis) is planimetric, not relief.
No living-person statements: this page quantifies terrain and quotes the public record about a public building; it makes no claims about residents, owners or designers.
Cultural and educational use only — terrain markers with printed thresholds, not predictions.