In this video, I explain the process of downloading and not least creating a healthy file structure for your QGIS project data. The key advantage of a wellstructured project is that it can be moved and shared without breaking.

Learn more about finding geospatial data in my web article "Finding and Accessing Data" https://www.geoinformatics.online/top...

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Downloading Natural Earth data
1:20 Downloading Global Landcover data from EEA
1:45 File structure for a QGIS project
3:52 Adding Vector data (.shp file)
4:48 Adding raster data (.tif file)
5:39 overview of the Browser
6:31 Local data folders
7:00 External data folders
7:29 Loading data into QGIS (order matters)
8:00 The first layer sets the CRS of the project
8:48 The CRS information