Choosing which of many files to import into QGIS

This is something a lot of people struggle with when they are not use to the various file formats that GIS and particularly QGIS can accept.

Other than giving it a quick Google you can use QGIS browser to load the particular files in as it will only list the files that have a valid format for importing.

To get the browser panel right click on anywhere on the top panels of QGIS and tick the browser panel to enable it. You can then browse to your folders and load the layers from there by click and drag or right clicking and then choosing "Add layer to project"


In this instance you should import:

Raster 1:

im.jp2

Raster 2:

DSM.tif

Vector ShapeFile:

clip.shp

for the vector part, you should import the .shp file only. ".tab" is the mapinfo source file. for the raster part, the .tif.