Learning QGIS - Third Edition

Editing vector geometries

Now that we know how to create and select features, we can take a closer look at the other tools in the Digitizing and Advanced Digitizing toolbars.

Using basic digitizing tools

This is the basic Digitizing toolbar:

The Digitizing toolbar contains tools that we can use to create and move features and nodes as well as delete, copy, cut, and paste features, as follows:

• The Add Feature tool allows us to create new features by placing feature nodes on the map, which are connected by straight lines.
• Similarly, the Add Circular String tool allows us to create features where consecutive nodes are connected by curved lines.
• With the ...