System design for business location searching using distance approach based on Android

Abstract

Indonesia is large country with dense populations. Many entrepreneurs take Indonesia as world business target since people are commonly using a smart phone in their daily life. In Bengkalis, people are looking for business location conventionally by visit the shop and others. Social media like Facebook and Instagram also give the information about the shop and its products. But all the method was very inefficient since consumer spend a lot of energy, time, and money to buy something. Business and technology are two thing that can't be separated where there are greatly needed to support the success of business. The distance location formula between two points P and Q with latitude and longitude (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) respectively named coordinate. This formula base on Haversine Formula which is very accurate to calculate the distance. In this paper, we create a system of business location searching using distance approach. The main purpose of this application is to give the visitors about the information of product and a map that show the nearest shop according to product they needed, distance estimation to reach the location.