[gdal-dev] Shapefile to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

[nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de]

Hi!

In my ubuntubox the "epsg" file, in which all epsg codes
are described, is under /usr/share/proj/

.

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:56:52 -0500
 Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> 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
>  > Chief Mapmaker
>  > Demand Media / TopoZone.com
>  > 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
>  > North Chelmsford, MA  01863
>  > ed at topozone.com
>  > Phone: +1 (978) 251-4242
>  > Fax: +1 (978) 251-1396
>  >
>  > -----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
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