Creating vector data

Often, we'll be required to create our own data by drawing point, line, or polygon data. In QGIS, we can do so very easily by specifying vector data when creating a shapefile.

Creating point data

Creating point vector data can be very easily accomplished in QGIS. We can create point data by following these steps:

1. We need to create a new shapefile by clicking on the Layer menu, clicking or hovering on Create Layer, and then clicking on New Shapefile Layer.
2. A new window will appear now. We browse to the folder where we want to save the shapefile and give it a name here it's named points. Select Point as Geometry Type. After that, we save it by clicking OK. Now we'll see that this layer is...