CTrail eTix vs MonUview

Traveling on CTrail just got easier! No more waiting in line to purchase a paper ticket, swiping your credit card, or carrying around cash. Connecticut DOT’s CTrail eTix app allows Hartford Line and Shore Line East customers to buy mobile rail tickets using their smartphone. Daily parking at Wallingford and Berlin stations is also available for purchase using CTrail eTix. With CTrail eTix, One-Way, Weekly, Monthly, and Ten-Trip mobile tickets are available for purchase. For customers that also use CTtransit, a CTtransit Monthly (Local) Bus add-on is available for purchase with your monthly rail ticket. Pay on the go, and use your mobile tickets immediately or save them for later. Keeping track of expenses is easy with CTrail eTix receipts provided via e-mail. Get started right away by downloading CTrail eTix and creating your account.

Point your phone at the skyline and MonUview tells you what you're looking at. It uses your location and your phone's compass to find the documented places around you — buildings, monuments, bridges, parks, historic sites — and puts them in view where they actually are. Turn, and they turn with you. Tap one to read what's known about it. THREE WAYS TO USE IT Walk it live — the camera view, with landmarks labelled over the street in front of you. Camera off — the same landmarks against a clean backdrop, at a wider radius. Works indoors, and uses far less battery. Preview — look around a place before you go there. WHAT IT'S FOR Walking an unfamiliar city. Finally learning what that building you pass every day actually is. Standing somewhere old and wondering what happened there. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS, NO TRACKING There is no sign-up, because there is nothing to sign up to. MonUview has no server and no analytics. Your location is used to ask what's nearby and is never stored or sent anywhere we control — there is no "we" to send it to. The camera feed never leaves your phone. Nothing about you is kept between sessions. Landmark information comes from the open encyclopedia record of the world, maintained by the people who live near these places. MonUview needs a GPS signal and works best outdoors. Somewhere with well-documented landmarks — a city centre, a historic district, a waterfront — shows the most.