What Lodestar is

Lodestar is a free web atlas: a hand-charted map of 796 websites plotted across 22 regions. It is run the old way — by people who actually look at each site — and it is free to browse and free to join.

How sites are charted

Every listing is placed by hand. We give each site a plain name, a direct link and a short note on where it leads, then group it into the region it belongs to. We re-survey the regions from time to time and retire anything that has gone offline.

Charting your own site

Run a website? Chart it in under a minute. Add your URL, choose a region, and you are on the map. There is no fee now and there never will be — Lodestar is free for good.

What we don’t do

No trackers, no pop-ups, no pay-to-rank. Lodestar is a calm, legible index — the opposite of an algorithmic search box. Just a map you can read and trust.