[Qgis-user] Restricting project extent in QGIS

[Shriramana Sharma]

Hello.

I am using QGIS 3.4 LTS on Kubuntu Bionic LTS. I am using several
global datasets like NaturalEarth, HydroRIVERS etc. Loading all of
them takes too much time and memory especially on my laptop.

I am mostly working in India area only. So I'd like to apply some
settings in my project to tell QGIS to load features from within India
only for performance reasons. It is acceptable to have it as a lat/lon
extent constraint rather than clipping to a polygon.

There is existing advice on how to clip data to given polygons
(https://guides.library.duke.edu/QGIS/Clip) but I don't want to
maintain separate shapefiles etc with clipped data. So I'd prefer to
set it in the project using global upstream data.

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/277297 seems to indicate that
this is possible in ArcGIS. But how can I achieve this in QGIS?

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