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by DominikPeters 1950 days ago
> My February 2021 Apple Fitness challenge is to walk 227km in the month.

I half expected OP to turn the NFC tags into a scavenger hunt. Like, set a cookie and display a progress bar how many of the NFC tags have been scanned by that device.

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Mate, if I was half that smart I wouldn't be a wedding celebrant :)
i would try to rebuild the station database.

put up a form to ask for the name of the station, and get the browser to share the gps location. also ask for which lines stop here and where they are going. submit all that to openstreetmap.

then do a search on the station name and gps location and display some useful information.

for the scavenger hunt, save the station codes in local storage in the browser, so that visitors can track their progress but you don't track visitor movements. only upload highscores to the server.

also display a random family friendly joke to encourage scanning.

experiment, see if you can find something that makes this go viral...

let people submit photos of the station...

let them report on bus delays...

to get traction, look for groups that like to play scavenger hunts. also contact the openstreetmap community and public transport enthusiasts. you should find some people interested in doing something with this.
This is a fabulous idea and if the transit folks don’t bother to recover the domain name, it would be a neat side project.