[gdal-dev] Shapefile to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

[Kent Eschenberg]

Any idea why I cannot convert a shapefile to the Lambert azimuthal equal area 
projection? I tried

ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:9820 -f "ESRI Shapefile" destination.shp source.shp

and saw the message

ERROR 6:
EPSG PCS/GCS code 9820 not found in EPSG support files.  Is this a valid
EPSG coordinate system?
Failed to process SRS definition: EPSG:9820

I'm using GDAL 1.4.2 on Fedora core 6.

TIA!
Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center