Gold foil covers the whole planet until you click a country, and then it scratches away to grey, which is the whole charm of Scratch Map. A world map lists every UN member state plus selected territories, and region maps cover the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Mexico, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand, Brazil, China, India, and Italy. Each click opens a prompt where you can record the year you visited and paste a link to your photo album, and clicking again updates the details or unscratches the place. Maps zoom with the mouse wheel or on-screen buttons, pan by dragging, fit to the screen on demand, and go fullscreen. The home page shows thumbnails of every map with expandable tables that separate visited places from those still waiting, with years and clickable album links. A Share button can expose a read-only view of any map when the optional sharing flag is on. Everything lives in a single JSON file in a data folder, so backups are a simple copy. A Docker health check keeps container platforms informed, and the port, address, data directory, and log level are set with environment variables. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.