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I've tried it. It has nice visualisations of your journey history. You get to see yourself fly over the tube map. However it is let down by Transport for London's useless Oyster history data which has huge holes in it. Sometimes whole days are missing and never show up or sometimes they record and entrance, but not the exit (even where it actually happened). I predict users will get sick of their "achievements" being missed and will lose interest.
Steve | 11.01.11 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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I like the idea of the bike key, while sitting on the tube all day and paying for each station I go to does not sound interesting, completing missions in under 30 mins by bike could be fun.
Tim | 11.01.11 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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yeah, i really wanted to be excited by this and signed up with a username/password (but not give them my Oyster details), and then for all the reaons that you list (security/PAYG only) thought "this is bollocks", and didn't do it. just been burned out on FourSquare as well, which has put me off all location-based "fun" type stuff, shame.
geofftech | Homepage | 11.01.11 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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Doomed to fail. As others have said, the Oyster PayG history is not very accurate. I made 1399 Oyster swipes last year and it didn't report 115 of them (Yes, I keep records of useless stuff too).
I don't understand why the on-line history has gaps but you can request a PDF'd copy of your statement which will be accurate and in some cases, more recent than the online history....
£1160 added to my Oyster, 764 bus journies, 14 swipes at a DLR reader and zero tram journies on PayG.
Simon | 11.01.11 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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Most worryingly, at least to those of us who still value data privacy...
Younger folk are increasingly comfortable sharing their entire lives online, without fear of repercussions
George Orwell was right, wasn't he? What he didn't quite twig was that people would willingly *give* their data away to facilitate The Control.
ID cards may have been scrapped by the Coalition, but there are much more sinister forces at work, run by almost totally uncontrolled commercial operations.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 11.01.11 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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I've not signed up for Chromaroma for the same reasons - it just seems too insecure. TfL have my credit card details, after all.
I do, however, have a (possibly misguided) sense of trust in telling Google where I am, and have signed up for Latitude. My location-aware smartphone pings my location to Google's servers, and I can choose to share this (or not) with other Latitude-using friends.
But the really interesting bit is the Location History. It remembers where I've been, and takes a guess at where I live (because I spend a lot of time there, particularly at night), where I work (because I spend long stretches of time there during the day), and presents me with a pie chart of how I spend my time. It also tells me how many more miles I've got to travel before I've covered the equivalent distance to the moon. (219,905, if you're interested.)
I suppose I'm happy enough to share this data with Google for the same reason that I don't mind TfL knowing where I've been: I'm boring, and probably only interesting as an aggregate statistic. It's not really Big Brother watching. Is it?
martin | Homepage | 11.01.11 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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Big Brother can get the info if he wants: the police made about 6,500 requests for Oyster card travel information last year (up from 250 in 2005). Nearly all the requests were granted. Context: there are about 7 million cards in regular use.
Gordon | 11.01.11 - 10:49 p.m. | #
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Shame we can't sign up our staff Oyster cards to the website. I'd get thousands upon thousands of points!
Not fair though really if your job involves being out and about on the Tube!
ALB | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 4:05 p.m. | #
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