ArcView and EPAnet

Hello,

Does anyone have experience of using ArcView or other ESRI GIS in
conjunction with EPAnet? If so, what interfacing and other issues
have arisen?

Regards,
Ed Wheeler

We've used MapInfo. While the general principles apply with
any GIS, the scripting languages (Avenue/AML/SML vs. MapBasic)
are quite different. Nevertheless, I can make the data
structures and some of the code available.

Regards,

Ben

We've had some success linking ArcView and EPANET, through a combination of Avenue scripts and a stand-alone program called HDRLink. We use Avenue scripts to create a series of database files containing information on the distribution system and the land use patterns.

HDRLink takes these database files, calculates demands at every node (based on the land use), and writes the EPANET input file. We also use HDRLink to read the EPANET output file and create an output database that can be brought back into ArcView. It's not as seamless as we'd like, but it works.

Jeroen Olthof
HDR Engineering