There should actually be three definitions. The official one that got 
added recently (3005), the one Cubewerx made up (42102) and the one ESRI 
made up (102190).

P

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just noticed we have two codes for the BC Albers projection,
>> 3005, and 42102, the first coming from the official EPSG
>> database, the latter coming from the epsg extensions module.
>> Why is it so? Definition looks like being more or less identical...
> 
> Andrea,
> 
> This is because 42102 was added for the specific use of WMS (possibly by
> Cubewerx) at the time there was no corresponding code in EPSG.  Eventually
> the EPSG folks did add the projection to the official dictionary so we now
> have duplicates.  There are quite a few other comparison duplications.
> 
> Best regards,


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