SWMManywhere
SWMManywhere: Synthesise Urban Drainage Network Models Anywhere in the World - Published in JOSS (2025)
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SWMManywhere is used to derive and simulate a sewer network anywhere in the world
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: ImperialCollegeLondon
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/SWMManywhere/
- Size: 146 MB
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- Stars: 27
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 94
- Releases: 17
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README.md
SWMManywhere: Synthesise Urban Drainage Network Models Anywhere in the World
SWMManywhere is a tool to synthesise urban drainage network models (UDMs) using publicly available data such as street network, DEM, and building footprints, across the globe. It also provides tools for generating SWMM input files and performing simulations for the synthesised UDMs.
Features
- Automatic data retrieval and preprocessing: all of our data requirements are met with global datasets, so all you need is a bounding box!
- Customisable network synthesis: change a range of parameters to create different networks, power users can easily extend existing functionality.
- Streamlined evaluation to compare with real networks: we include a variety of performance metrics and automatic running/comparing if you have your own SWMM model.
- Command line interface: All of this and more can be accessed by passing a configuration file to a CLI.
Installation
Install SWMManywhere:
bash
pip install swmmanywhere
Alternatively, it can be installed using mamba (conda or micromamba):
bash
mamba install -c conda-forge swmmanywhere
SWMManywhere dependencies may be viewed in the pyproject.toml.
Documentation and Quickstart
Once installed, you can simply run SWMManywhere from the command line giving a configuration file in YAML format as input. As SWMManywhere can download data automatically from well known sources, this settings file can often be minimal and restricted to indicating the geographical area to be processed:
python -m swmmanywhere --config_path=\path\to\config.yml
The result of the calculation will be a model of the sewage system for that area, like the following, which can then be further processed or analysed with SWMM, for example:

Follow the Quickstart for a more detailed initial example and ReadTheDocs for full information of SWMManywhere capabilities. <!-- markdown-link-check-enable -->
Use and contributing
This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause licence, see LICENSE.
There are many things we would like to do! If you are interested to contribute please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE OF CONDUCT.
Owner
- Name: Imperial College London
- Login: ImperialCollegeLondon
- Kind: organization
- Email: icgithub-support@imperial.ac.uk
- Location: Imperial College London
- Repositories: 311
- Profile: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon
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JOSS Publication
SWMManywhere: Synthesise Urban Drainage Network Models Anywhere in the World
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- Watch event: 22
- Delete event: 34
- Member event: 2
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- Create event: 61
- Release event: 9
- Issues event: 84
- Watch event: 22
- Delete event: 34
- Member event: 2
- Issue comment event: 178
- Push event: 305
- Pull request event: 128
- Pull request review comment event: 57
- Pull request review event: 149
- Fork event: 2
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- Total issues: 149
- Total pull requests: 223
- Average time to close issues: about 2 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 5 days
- Total issue authors: 9
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- Average comments per issue: 1.43
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- Merged pull requests: 177
- Bot issues: 0
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- Issues: 63
- Pull requests: 183
- Average time to close issues: 27 days
- Average time to close pull requests: 5 days
- Issue authors: 9
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- Average comments per issue: 1.11
- Average comments per pull request: 1.39
- Merged pull requests: 138
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 63
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- Total versions: 12
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SWMManywhere software
- Documentation: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/SWMManywhere/
- License: BSD License
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Latest release: 0.1.16
published 7 months ago
