Celebrating a little bit of legacy from Placemark and a new product for hydraulic simulation

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epanet-js is a new web application that brings EPANET hydraulic simulation to modern browsers using WebAssembly, built by experts from Iterating using open source code from the defunct Placemark mapping tool. The browser-based tool offers a significant improvement over expensive legacy Windows software that costs $16,000 annually, demonstrating how open source licensing can enable new businesses to create better solutions in specialized markets like water utility system planning.

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Really helpful, I have to show this to my real-estate client to use it for his platform.

Looks like a very interesting tool

Amazing tool. Literally i cant imagine that this tool also in market and specially in JavaScript. 😄