The NGA Office of Global Navigation, Maritime Division is in the process of developing a new version of World Vector Shoreline (WVS®) and in support of this effort has acquired a prototype Global Shoreline Data set. This new shoreline is an approximation of the High Water Line; it is NOT a Mean High Water Line since the source data have not been tide coordinated. Regions 2, 3, and part of 10 have been updated with post December 2004 imagery.  Plans are in work to fill cloud gaps.  As segments of the prototype version are gap filled, they will replace the original shoreline segments.  These segments are being made available in the interest of supporting outside users who may have immediate application for these higher resolution data.

IMPORTANT: These prototype data are not currently intended for safety of navigation products and do not necessarily reflect recognition of the political status of an area by the coastal nations affected or by the United States Government. (Region 29 shoreline is not available.)