Bandung is one of the cities which is always visited by a huge number of tourists.The frequency of the visit increases every year.This city has a large number tourism objects and strategic places to visit.Therefore,it is essential to design an information-based technology application which can make finding strategic places in Bandung easier and can give information of shortest routes from origin places to the destinations.The users of this application will include administrator and public visitor.The administrator will enter the data pf places,weight,place types and other strategic location attributes.Public visitors wll be able to see the map display and can enter the origin places and destinations.The output of the application which will be built in the second year is the shortest route display which is based on the inputs from both users.The research is first year competitive granr research which is runded by higher education office(Dikti) in 2009.This reseach involves three researchers,ten student and one administration staff.In the firsh year,the research emphasizes on analytical and designing phase by using structured method,that is by applying dijkstra method in the algorithm of shortest route searching.Functions prepared in this information system is designed by using modeling tools like structure chart,menu structure,data flow diagram(DFD) as modeling process explained in process specifcation and entity relationship(ER) as data modeling.Apart from that,this design is equipped with testing design which will be conducted after the information system is built in the second year of research. Key words:Geographic information system,Bandung,shortest routes,dijkstra method