Put a country on the map.
Most of the world is not on the map yet, and the reason is money rather than effort. Every track has to be found, turned into a street address, matched against the school, park or stadium it sits on, and read off aerial imagery when nothing nearby fits. Those are paid API calls, billed per request.
If you want to see another country on the site, you can help cover that cost. We take no cut. A country's goal is the API bill to the cent, and every country below shows exactly what it needs and how much has been raised so far. Once a country is funded it is built and live within 48 hours, and then it is free for everyone, permanently.
There is no way to know how many tracks a country has until the full pipeline has run over it. The estimate is the best answer available beforehand: it comes from OpenStreetMap and is filtered by the same geometry test the real run uses, and it is calibrated against every country already published.
If the published count comes in more than 30% below the estimate, the price is recalculated at the real count and the difference refunded. The $5 minimum still applies to the recalculated price. Conversely, if the count comes in above the estimate you are never asked for more.
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We take no cut
A country's goal is the API bill, to the cent, and nothing on top of it. Four services do the work and each is charged by the request, so the goal is arithmetic you can check rather than a number we assert. Hosting and upkeep are funded separately, not taken from here.
| Service | Calls | Rate | Cost | ||
| Google Geocodingevery track | 1,000 | × | $5.00 / 1k | = | $5.00 |
| Google Placesthe 20% not named for free | 200 | × | $32.00 / 1k | = | $6.40 |
| Google Natural Language1.5 checks per Places call | 300 | × | $1.00 / 1k | = | $0.30 |
| Claude Opus 5the 35% needing imagery | 350 | × | $16.00 / 1k | = | $5.60 |
| Card processingStripe, 2.9% + 30¢ | $0.83 | ||||
| Total for 1,000 tracks | $18.13 |
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