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To address the low accuracy of geospatial entity matching using a single feature attribute, this study proposes a method that combines the D\u2013S (Dempster\u2013Shafer) evidence theory and a multiattribute matching strategy. During POI data preprocessing, this method calculates the spatial similarity, name similarity, address similarity, and category similarity between pairs from different geospatial datasets, using the multiattribute matching strategy. The similarity calculation results of these four types of feature attributes were used as independent evidence to construct the basic probability distribution. A multiattribute model was separately constructed using the improved combination rule of the D\u2013S evidence theory, and a series of decision thresholds were set to give the final entity matching results. We tested our method with a dataset containing Baidu POIs and Gaode POIs from Beijing. 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