[UW-GIS-L] Re: Uw-gis-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 9

[Leigh_Ann Wolfe]

ArcMap doesn't read .e00 files. You must convert them in order to use them
in ArcGIS. Check out the link below & search how to import/convert .e00
annotation on the ESRI Support page or ArcGIS help documents. (Yes, they
need to be IMPORTED to coverage first, then to .shp or gdb).

http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.1/index.cfm?id=107&pid=100&topicname=Converting%20data%20to%20a%20different%20format

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>    1. Re: converting annotations from AML to ArcMap (Phil Hurvitz)
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> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:00:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Phil Hurvitz <phurvitz at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] converting annotations from AML to ArcMap
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> I've never done this, but the import annotation probably requires an
> IMPORT to coverage first, since the tool is looking for an input feature
> class.
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> -P.
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>    Phil Hurvitz, MFR | PhD Student, Urban Planning | Gould 317
>      College of Architecture and Urban Planning | Box 355726
>   University of Washington, Seattle, Washington  98195-5726, USA
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> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Walker Willingham wrote:
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> > I've been converting a client's AML project into ArcMap, and they
> provided
> > annotation files in .e00 format.  I can add them directly to my ArcMap
> > project, and see the annotations by turning on their labels, but the
> > resulting labels are different and every time I open the file it takes
> > several minutes to index.
> >
> > I see an "Import Coverage Annotation" tool in my Conversion Tools/To
> > Geodatabase, but it does not see the .e00 file.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Also I have been getting inconsistent results importing feature classes
> into
> > geodatabases with either the single or multiple conversion
> tools.  Sometimes
> > I get the complaint that the target feature doesn't exist, which seems a
> bit
> > of a catch-22 since I am trying to create it.  And yet I know this has
> worked
> > in the past for me.
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