This is the second of a two-part series on creating new shapefiles and digitizing in QGIS.

This task sheet is going to demonstrate how to add data to new shapefiles, created in the previous task sheet - PM2082-17L (QGIS: Digitizing I - Creating New Shapefiles), as well as adding attribute information to those shapefiles. An attribute table contains descriptive data for a set of geographic features, usually arranged so that each row represents a feature and each column represents an attribute. In QGIS, attribute data can be stored as text data, whole numbers, decimal numbers, and dates.