Fix multiple label errors in a polygon coverage using ArcEdit

Summary

Properly managing polygon attributes requires exactly one label point per polygon. Instructions provided are to find and fix multiple label errors in a polygon coverage.

Procedure

1. Select polygons that have multiple label points and assign a flag attribute to the label points.
   
   

   Code:
   Arc: arcedit
   Arcedit: edit soils polygon
   Arcedit: drawenvironment polygon label ids
   Arcedit: draw
   Arcedit: additem flag 1 1 I  
   Arcedit: select $labels gt 1 
   Arcedit: drawselect
   Arcedit: selectput label      
   Arcedit: calculate flag = 1

   
   
2. Set the edit feature to label and draw the selected labels.
   
   

   Code:
   Arcedit: editfeature label    
   Arcedit: drawselect

   
   
3. Select a polygon with multiple labels. Set the map extent to this polygon.
   
   

   Code:
   Arcedit:  select
   Arcedit:  mapextent select

   
   
4. Delete all labels for this polygon except the one that contains the attributes to be maintained. Reselect the polygon's remaining label and calculate the FLAG item to 0.
   
   

   Code:
   Arcedit: select  
   Arcedit: list                        
   Arcedit: delete   
   Arcedit: select
   Arcedit: calculate flag = 0

   
   
   
5. Select all of the labels where FLAG item equals 1. Reset the mapextent to the extent of these selected polygons and display the selected labels.
   
   

   Code:
   Arcedit: select flag = 1
   Arcedit: mapextent select
   Arcedit: drawselect

   
   
   
6. Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5 for each polygon with duplicate labels.
7. Save the coverage and QUIT ArcEdit.
   
   

   Code:
   Arcedit: save
   Arcedit: q

   
   
8. BUILD the coverage and run LABELERRORS to verify that the duplicate labels have been removed.
   
   

   Code:
   Arc: build soils polygon
   Arc: labelerrors soils all

   
   
9. Use the DROPITEM command to delete the FLAG item.
   
   

   Code:
   Arc: dropitem soils.pat soils.pat flag