ogr2ogr: Failed to transform feature 144 (LL -> LAEA)

[Markus Neteler]

I have taken the political world border from ​http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php (​SHAPE FILE) and tried to reproject to EU-LAEA. The LAEA prj file for -t_srs is attached, it is from the European CORINE data set.

Problem:

ogr2ogr -t_srs index.prj world_borders_LAEA.shp TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp
Warning 1: organizePolygons() received a polygon with more than 100 parts. The processing may be really slow.
You can skip the processing by setting OGR_ORGANIZE_POLYGONS=SKIP, or only make it analyze counter-clock wise parts by setting OGR_ORGANIZE_POLYGONS=ONLY_CCW if you can assume that the outline of holes is counter-clock wise defined
Failed to transform feature 144.
ERROR 1: Terminating translation prematurely after failed
translation of layer TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3

# trunk from 22 Sept 2008
ogrinfo --version
GDAL 1.6.0dev, released 2008/00/00

Could a internal precision problem trigger this?

Markus

[Markus Neteler]

CORINE LAEA proj file