[gdal-dev] Shapefile to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

[Kent Eschenberg]

Hi Ed,

Thanks! Here's the sequence of pages that led to the 9820 code:

www.gdal.org
www.gdal.org/ogr
www.gdal.org/ogr/osr_tutorial.html
www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list
www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/lambert_azimuthal_equal_area.html

That last page lists the EPSG code as 9820. I'm trying I'm trying to convert 
currently uses the WGS84 projection.

What file do you mean when you refer to my "EPSG file"? Currently I don't have 
such a file; that is what I am trying to create.

All advice appreciated!
Kent

Ed McNierney wrote:
 > Kent -
 >
 > The obvious question would be, "And do you think code 9820 actually exists 
in your EPSG file?".  There is no such projection code in my EPSG table from PROJ.
 >
 > What projection definition do you think EPSG:9820 describes?
 >
 >      - Ed
 >
 > Ed McNierney
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 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Kent Eschenberg
 > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:29 AM
 > To: GDAL
 > Subject: [gdal-dev] Shapefile to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
 >
 > 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