What Atlas is
Atlas is a free, hand-kept gazetteer of the open web. At the time of writing it holds 797 entries, alphabetised across 22 sections. The form is older than the medium: a directory of names, each with a brief gloss, ordered by the letter the name begins with. The reader scans by alphabet rather than by ranking; the editor records rather than judges.
How the gazetteer is arranged
The front page is a single A–Z. A thin navigator at the top jumps to any letter that holds entries; below it, each letter is a section, and within each section the headwords are listed alphabetically with their section number and a single line of gloss. There is no card grid, no spreadsheet, no masonry tile. The gazetteer's job is to file and to point, and the typography is set so the eye can do its work.
Sections
Atlas distinguishes twenty-two sections of the working web — from Chronicles to Engines, from Victuals to Tenements. The section names are encyclopedic rather than commercial; the see-also notes inside each section lead the reader between them. A section page is itself an A–Z, pre-filtered to the section.
Editorial principles
Submissions are catalogued, not editorialised. The unique index on domains prevents a headword being filed twice. When a submitter leaves the gloss blank, Atlas fetches one from the site itself, in a single short request, after the response is already on its way back. The gazetteer records what is given to it; the reader weighs the result.
How to file an entry
Visit the file an entry page. Supply the domain and the section; everything else is optional. There is no fee and no queue. A successful filing prints a single typewriter line — Headword filed: example.com (sec. 04) — see also: … — and the entry appears in the next sweep of the alphabet. If the headword is already on file, the unique index reports the collision and nothing is duplicated.