We stumbled again upon Chromaroma the other day – the game you play with your Oyster card that lets you score points as you travel around London touching in and out at tube stations completing ‘missions’ and generally trying to be the most travelled person in town.
But we never really liked doing it because it only worked with Pay as you Go users (no good for us Oyster travelcard holders), and also because you had to give them your username and password to the Oyster system, so that they could scrape your journey info from TfL and bring it into their own system.
Which is why we’ve been busy trying to complete something more straightforward – checking into every tube station using Foursquare.
Geofftech has got two lists on the site covering all the stations – split because on Foursquare, there is a maximum limit of 200 places, so it’s not possible to have all 270 tube stations on one list, so below the ‘Zone 1’ list has had a few Zone 2 stations put into it, to allow the ‘rest of…’ to max out at 200.
We’re now just two check-ins aways for completing all the tube stations in London. In San Francisco (where Foursquare originated) you get the ‘Subway Rat’ badge for travelling to all the station on the BART. We suspect nothing will happen when you tick off all 270 tube stations, but wouldn’t it be great if London had an equivalent ‘Tube Badge’, once you’d checked into all of them?
Foursquare List – Tube Challenge (200 tube stations outside of Zone 1)
Foursquare List – Zone 1 Stations (The other 70 Stations)
Foursquare List – DLR Challenge (All 45 DLR Stations)
Foursquare List – Overground Challenge (All 82 Stations)