Clipping annotation to a polygon in coverage feature class

Question

Hi guys, I have some UK Ordnance Survey OpenData background vector mapping (Strategi) that I need to use, only I don't need the huge amount of annotation in the data for the whole of the UK. I'd like to clip it to a region which works great for polylines, points, polygons features but not for text. I think this may be because the annotation in the dataset is supplied as a coverage feature class, not as a shp like the rest of the layers.

So yeah clip to polygon wont work, also converting to a shapefile or geodatabase class wont either as it merely converts the text on the map to a straight line!, clearly not what I want!

Do we know any workarounds for this, I think there may be a license level issue here, we only have an ArcView licence, v 9.1.

Thanks again guys, much appreciated.

Murray

JohnSobetzer · Answer

So the conversion worked, but the subsequent clipping of it produced the polygons?

What about using the region polygon to select annotext, and then exporting those to their own layer as a workaround?  Or using a select query of attributes, if that will work, to do the same?

MurrayBrady · Answer

I've never seen that error before.  Are you using the tool within ArcMap or ArcCatalog?  I faintly recall problems doing it with ArcCatalog.  It's worked fine for me in ArcMap except for the leader lines.  An advantage of the ArcMap approach is you can select the coverage annotation ahead of using the tool, and then it will only convert the selected annotation.

I've managed to convert the annotation to a geodatabase format, but now whenever I clip the new annotation to the region polygon the text is always replaced by polygons.

Is this a common thing? Everything else clips fine but this text is a nightmare! This is in both catalog and arcmap.

JohnSobetzer · Answer

I've never seen that error before.  Are you using the tool within ArcMap or ArcCatalog?  I faintly recall problems doing it with ArcCatalog.  It's worked fine for me in ArcMap except for the leader lines.  An advantage of the ArcMap approach is you can select the coverage annotation ahead of using the tool, and then it will only convert the selected annotation.