Abstract: As a basic unit of government administration, the structuring of geographic entities is crucial contents in the construction of smart cities. This paper elaborates the structuring extent of geographic entities toward city-level application based on analysis into studies and applications concerning geographic entities home and abroad, and takes the two typical entities of yards and buildings as examples to analyze their data characteristics and explore their contents and structuring methods. The study in this paper provides reference for the structuring and intelligent application of geographic entities in the construction of smart cities.

Key words: geographic entity, smart city, new fundamental surveying and mapping, data organization