April 1, 2016

Tool to get your Opal card travel data

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , — James Bunton @ 12:00 am

The New South Wales public transport system uses the Opal smartcard as its payment mechanism. This means their servers store every trip that you make, including the start/end times and locations.

They need this data for billing, so there’s not much we can do about it from a privacy point of view. However you may be interested in getting your own copy of your data for making pretty graphs or other analyses.

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