{"id":271,"date":"2008-12-25T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=271"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T07:54:05","slug":"epanet-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2008\/12\/25\/epanet-z\/","title":{"rendered":"EPANET-Z &#8211; add online maps and satellite images to EPANET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update 11\/09\/2018:<\/strong> for some time now the application does not work due to changes in maps APIs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>EPANet-Z<\/strong> (in free beta) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonums.com\/home.html\">Zonum Solutions<\/a> is a modified recompiled version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2004\/12\/22\/epanet-2\/\">EPANet<\/a> that adds the option to insert map and satellite images to the network&#8217;s backdrop. The program uses online services like Yahoo maps and Google maps to extract the images. From Zonum&#8217;s web site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The use of a backdrop file brought new capabilities to EPANET. However, how do I create this file? how big this image can be? Is it already georeferenced? How about using an aerial photo or satellite image as a background?<\/p>\n<p>What would you say, if you were told that you could access satellite images for the whole World and use them as a backdrop for EPANET, just by clicking a button?&#8230; I would say EPANET-Z.<\/p>\n<p>EPANET 2.00.12 (3\/5\/08) was modified and re-compiled to display Online Maps\/imagery as a background. EPANET-Z = EPANET + Online Maps (Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, Virtual Earth)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276 aligncenter\" title=\"epanetz4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/epanetz4.png\" alt=\"epanetz4\" width=\"448\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have entered a small part of my neighborhood network to the program. Unfortunately the satellite image in my region is of poor quality (click the image to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/epanet-z-haifa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277 aligncenter\" title=\"epanet-z-haifa-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/epanet-z-haifa-1.jpg\" alt=\"epanet-z-haifa-1\" width=\"461\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EPANet-Z\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zonums.com\/epanetz.html\">EPANet-Z at Zonum Solutions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 20\/08\/2010<\/strong>: for some reason the download link at Zonum Solutions for EPANet-z is broken. You can download it from <a title=\"Download EPANet-Z\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Epanet-Z.zip\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 11\/09\/2018: for some time now the application does not work due to changes in maps APIs. EPANet-Z (in free beta) from Zonum Solutions is a modified recompiled version of EPANet that adds the option to insert map and satellite &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2008\/12\/25\/epanet-z\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPANET-Z &#8211; add online maps and satellite images to EPANET<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,33,34,31],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epanet-related","tag-backdrop","tag-epanet-z","tag-images","tag-zonum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}