You step out of a railway station or a bus stand in a city you don’t know. You need a hospital, a temple, your hotel. You open the map… and there’s a tangle of streets and a blue line — but in that first disorienting moment, with no sense of which way is which, you just need one thing:
Which direction do I start walking?
That exact moment is what I built Kotsethe for.
🔗 Try it now: kotsethe.whatistheurl.com
What it does
Search for any place — “railway station”, “hospital”, a temple, an address. Then hold your phone flat and slowly turn. Kotsethe works like a homing compass: a dot on the radar climbs toward the top as you face the place, then glows green and buzzes the instant you’re lined up. Now just walk straight ahead.
How it feels to use
- 🔎 Search → pick from live suggestions (or tap one of your recent places).
- 🎯 A radar shows you in the centre and the place as a dot.
- 🧭 Turn until the dot reaches the pointer at the top — it turns green, the phone vibrates, and the status reads “walk straight ahead.”
- 📊 It tells you Turn (left / right / ahead), Distance, and Bearing.
- 🗺️ The map below shows you, the destination, and a line between them — and as you move (walking or driving), the dot and line follow you live, with the distance counting down.
Why a compass, not turn-by-turn?
Sometimes you don’t need a twelve-step route — you need to orient yourself. Kotsethe points you in a straight-line direction toward the place, so you instantly know which way to go and can trust your own feet from there.
(It’s a direction-finder, not a road router — so use a little common sense around rivers and walls. 🙂)
The best part: it’s just a web page
No app store. No download. No sign-up. No servers.
- Open the link → it works.
- Tap Add to Home Screen → it installs like a real app and runs offline.
- 100% free, no API keys, no tracking.
Under the hood it’s plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, maps by Leaflet + OpenStreetMap, search by Photon, and the compass straight from your phone’s own sensors.
Open source
Kotsethe is open on GitHub — fork it, learn from it, build on it: 👉 github.com/vijayrajesh/kotsethe
👉Live URL : https://kotsethe.whatistheurl.com
I built this with a lot of help from AI — and a lot of love, in the spirit my family keeps:
If Kotsethe helps even one lost traveler take that first confident step in the right direction, that’s enough.
— Rajeshkannan MJ
Lost somewhere? Search for where you’re headed, point your phone, and let me know if it pointed you true.
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