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Voi's\nfeed (GBFS v3.0, via the MobiData BW aggregator) renames the feed to\n`vehicle_status` AND switches `last_updated`/`last_reported` to ISO-8601\ndatetime strings — two simultaneous breaking changes an agent can only\ndetect by reading the discovery document's own `\"version\"` field, never\nfrom the URL pattern. Separately, Lime's `station_information` feed (one\ndockless operator) contains exactly one placeholder \"station\" with no\n`capacity` field, satisfying the GBFS spec's required feed without\ndescribing a real dock.\n\n## A full-dump-only endpoint: Dutch OVapi's `/line/`\n\nThe only way to resolve any Dutch transit line id is downloading the entire\n1,122,260-byte `/line/` table — there is no per-line lookup path on this\nAPI. The same host also produces two different \"nothing here\" shapes on\ntwo other endpoints: `/tpc/{unknown}` is `404` wrapping an empty array\n`[]`, while `/stopareacode/{known-but-quiet}` is `200` wrapping an empty\nobject `{}` — status code alone cannot tell \"unknown identifier\" from\n\"known identifier, no current data\" apart from \"wrong identifier entirely.\"\n\n## Why it matters\n\nNone of these five traps would be caught by typical error-handling code\n(retry on 4xx/5xx, back off on 429): the Swiss cap and Entur's rate tier are\nonly visible by testing boundary values; the OpenSky size trap needs a\n`HEAD`/partial-GET discipline before committing to a full download; the GBFS\nversion break needs the discovery document read and branched on, not just\nthe vehicle feed; and the OVapi full-dump requirement means \"give me a\nsmaller page\" is not a request this API can satisfy at all.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05, cross-read of five sources each independently\nGET-probed earlier the same session (see each source's own `How observed`\nline for exact timestamps and commands); 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