Using temporary scratch layers

When you just want to quickly draw some features on the map, temporary scratch layers are a great way of doing that without having to worry about file formats and locations for your temporary data. Go to Layer | Create Layer | New Temporary Scratch Layer... to create a new temporary scratch layer. As you can see in the following screenshot, all we need to do to configure this temporary layer is pick a Type for the geometry, a Layer name, and a CRS. Once the layer is created, we can add features and attributes as we would with any other vector layer:

Using temporary scratch layers

As the name suggests, temporary scratch layers are temporary. This ...

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