Solution or Workaround
The following error message displays when extracting half a tile of data from the layer ROADS, where the ROADS layer coverages have only been built for lines, never polygons and the TLAKES is a built polygon coverage overlapping half a tile:
Arc: librarian quad
Librarian: setlayer roads
Librarian: setcover tlakes
Librarian: Usage: EXTRACT {location}
{CLIP}
Librarian: extract dissolve # clip
Fatal error (ANCADD) BAD POINTER
Bailing out of LINEADD
or at 7.0.3
Fatal error (GETFIL) BAD POINTER
Bailing out of LINEADD
Answer:
The DISSOLVE option only works for polygon layers.
Use the EXTRACT option TOPOLOGICAL instead of DISSOLVE since the road layer does not have polygons.
Article ID:000001273
Software:
- Legacy Products
- ArcMap 9 x
- ArcMap 8 x