def remap_label_indexers(data_obj, indexers, method=None, tolerance=None):
    """Given an xarray data object and label based indexers, return a mapping
    of equivalent location based indexers. Also return a mapping of updated
    pandas index objects (in case of multi-index level drop).
    """
    if method is not None and not isinstance(method, str):
        raise TypeError('``method`` must be a string')

    pos_indexers = {}
    new_indexes = {}

    dim_indexers = get_dim_indexers(data_obj, indexers)
    for dim, label in dim_indexers.items():
        try:
            index = data_obj.indexes[dim]
        except KeyError:
            # no index for this dimension: reuse the provided labels
            if method is not None or tolerance is not None:
                raise ValueError('cannot supply ``method`` or ``tolerance`` '
                                 'when the indexed dimension does not have '
                                 'an associated coordinate.')
            pos_indexers[dim] = label
        else:
            idxr, new_idx = convert_label_indexer(index, label,
                                                  dim, method, tolerance)
            pos_indexers[dim] = idxr
            if new_idx is not None:
                new_indexes[dim] = new_idx

    return pos_indexers, new_indexes