NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
In recent years shoreline data have been produced in digital form. Many of the older hardcopy shoreline manuscripts have also been converted to digital form, mostly by projects managed by the NOAA Coastal Services Center. These digital data sets are thought to have value beyond the application to nautical charts, especially for those users conducting GIS analysis and producing special purpose maps in the coastal zone.
NGS is building a database of its digital shoreline holdings. Functions accessible through this location will support geographic browsing of the data base, selection of projects of interest by location or other attributes, viewing of selected projects, and downloading of selected projects to the user's computer.
Historical and comptemporary vector shoreline data can be freely downloaded from NOAA's Shoreline Data Explorer.
