For my first mapping project since college 15 years ago, I need the Natural Earth I 10m in a Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection centered on North America.
I'm limited to free tools -- I'm using Quantum GIS for building the map, but it can't reproject raster files. I found the very useful gdal utilities, and I think I have the command line figured out:
gdalwarp -s_srs EPSG:4326 -t_srs EPSG:2163 NE1_LR_LC_SR.tif NE1_LR_LC_SR_reprojected.tif
However, this leaves a large jagged gap through far northeastern Asia, which is going to end up still being visible in the upper left corner of my final map.
Does anyone have any hints or advice they can give me? Is there a better tool I can use?












