Scratch Map Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Scratch Map hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Scratch Map, a scratch-off travel map, and track every country and region you have visited on your own domain. Scratch a place, then record the year you went and a link to the photo album. xCloud runs the pinned Scratch Map 1.2.3 image, mounts the persistent data volume and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes. There is no login, so protect the URL.

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What is Scratch Map?

Scratch Map is an open-source scratch-off style map to track your travels. Click a country or region to scratch it, and record the year you visited and a link to the trip's photo album. It offers a world map and region maps for 13 countries: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. A self-hosted Scratch Map is AGPL-3.0 licensed.

On xCloud the template runs Scratch Map 1.2.3 from the vendor's image, pinned by digest. All state is a single db.json file on the scratch_map_data volume. Scratch Map has no authentication, users or roles, so anyone who opens the URL can scratch and edit entries. The optional ENABLE_SHARE read-only page is not an access control. Upstream's last release dates from December 2024.

From Sign-Up to a Live Scratch Map In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Scratch Map normally means a container, persistent storage, a domain and a certificate before a single place is scratched. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Scratch Map from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain — there are no credentials to generate.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the vendor's ad3m3r5/scratch-map image pinned by immutable digest, mount the persistent data volume, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Start Scratching
Open your HTTPS Scratch Map URL — there is no sign-in step. Pick a map, click a place to scratch it, and add the year and an optional photo-album link.

Everything Scratch Map Does, On Your Own Server

Scratch Map runs in full here — the same scratch-off world and regional maps upstream ships, on infrastructure you control.

World And Regional Maps
Scratch off countries on a world map, plus the regions of 13 countries: the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Year And Photo-Album Links
Attach the year you visited and a link to your photo album for each scratched place.
Optional Read-Only Share
Turn on ENABLE_SHARE for a read-only share page so friends and family can see your map without editing it.
Lightweight By Design
A single small container with no database to manage — just one JSON file holding your travel history.
Your Travel History, Your Server
Scratched places, years and album links stay on a server you control instead of a third-party travel-tracking account.
Survives A Restart
Your scratched places live on a persistent volume, and QA confirmed them after a container restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Travel Map 24/7

Managed hosting for Scratch Map, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Scratch Map 1.2.3 deployed instantly
World map plus 13 country regions
Vendor image pinned by digest
Optional read-only share page
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Scratch Map

Keep a personal travel record
Scratch off the countries and regions you have been to, and note the year for each so the map doubles as a timeline.
Link a trip to its photos
Attach a photo album link to a scratched place, so the map points you straight to the pictures from that trip.
Plan where to go next
See at a glance which countries and regions are still unscratched, across the world and the 13 supported countries.
Share a read-only view
Turn on ENABLE_SHARE to get a read-only page for friends, remembering the editable pages stay open to anyone with the URL.

Scratch Map vs Alternatives

Travel tracking apps: Hosted apps that keep your visited places on the vendor's servers. A Scratch Map alternative to travel tracking apps stores everything in one db.json file on your own server.
Dawarich: Dawarich has its own OneClick page. In a Scratch Map vs Dawarich comparison, Dawarich is a location-history manager that imports GPS tracks, whereas Scratch Map is a simple scratch-off map you update by hand.
Wanderer: Wanderer has its own OneClick page. It is a trail and route manager, so it suits recording routes rather than ticking off countries.
Trip: Trip has its own OneClick page. It is a trip-planning tool, while Scratch Map is a record of where you have already been.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Scratch Map hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

A shared map for a travelling group or blog.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Scratch Map alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Scratch Map itself is free under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Own Your Travel Map?

Scratch Map on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own your data. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Scratch Map free?

Yes. Scratch Map is AGPL-3.0 software with no fee attached. Only the Cloud VPS costs anything, and since the app idled at about 36 MiB in QA it shares that server easily with whatever else you run there.

How much RAM does Scratch Map need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk, and QA measured about 38 MiB in use. The 6 GB plan is far more than a single small web app and one JSON file need.

Can you self-host Scratch Map with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Scratch Map Docker hosting without the setup: the ad3m3r5/scratch-map 1.2.3 image pinned by digest, its port bound to loopback behind HTTPS, and a persistent scratch_map_data volume for db.json, so nothing else needs provisioning.

Which maps does Scratch Map include?

A world map plus region-level maps of 13 countries: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Each scratched place can carry a year and a photo album link.

Does Scratch Map have a login?

No. Scratch Map has no built-in authentication by upstream design, so anyone with the URL can view and edit the map, and it has no rate limiting or CSRF protection. Protect the site with xCloud Basic Authentication or IP restrictions.

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Can I share my Scratch Map without letting people edit it?

Set ENABLE_SHARE=true in the Environment editor and redeploy to get a read-only /view/<map> page. That is not an access control on its own, because the editable pages stay reachable to anyone with the URL, so use it for viewing only.

How do I back up Scratch Map?

Back up the scratch_map_data volume, which holds a single db.json file with every scratched place, year and album link. Keep an off-server copy and test a restore. The file is migrated and rewritten on start-up, so redeploys keep your data.

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How do I upgrade Scratch Map?

The install stays on Scratch Map 1.2.3 until you adopt a newer template version. That release dates from December 2024, so read the upstream release notes first. Back up scratch_map_data before any change; nothing upgrades the app automatically.

What survives a restart in Scratch Map?

Your scratched places, years and album links, all on the persistent data volume. QA confirmed the data after a container restart. Keep the volume in place when you stop or redeploy the app so db.json is not lost.

Is there a Scratch Map cloud service I can use?

This page is your own Scratch Map cloud: a dedicated Cloud VPS running the open-source app, with your map in db.json on a volume of your own. Only visitors you let in see it, and nothing is shared with other tenants.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.