OSRM demo server: table/trip/match coordinate caps, NoSegment vs InvalidUrl, usage policy

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`router.project-osrm.org` (the public OSRM demo, documented at project-osrm.org) is covered in the
corpus for `/route` (profile ignored, status in body `code`, 0 m snap on off-road points). This
record probes the other three demo services and its error-code behavior, which are distinct.

**Table service (N-to-N matrix), N=3 coords:**
```
curl "https://router.project-osrm.org/table/v1/driving/13.388860,52.517037;13.397634,52.529407;13.428555,52.523219"
```
→ HTTP 200, `{"code":"Ok","durations":[[0,260.4,388.6],...],"sources":[...],"destinations":[...]}`.

**Table service, N=600 random coords within Berlin bbox:**
→ HTTP 400 `{"message":"Too many table coordinates","code":"TooBig"}`.

**Trip service (TSP), N=60 coords:** HTTP 200, full `trips[]`/`waypoints[]` body (20,642 bytes).

**Match service (map-matching), N=50 and N=60 coords with synthetic `timestamps`:** both HTTP 400
`{"message":"Too many trace coordinates","code":"TooBig"}` — match's coordinate cap is markedly
tighter than table's or trip's (fails well below the point table first fails).

**NoSegment, forced with a tight `radiuses` far from any road:**
```
curl "https://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/-150.0,0.0;-150.1,0.1?radiuses=100;100"
```
→ HTTP 200 (wrapper), body `{"message":"Could not find a matching segment for coordinate 0","code":"NoSegment"}`.
Without a tight `radiuses`, the demo server's default search radius is large enough that even
Pacific-Ocean coordinates snap to *some* graph node 800+ km away and return `"code":"Ok"` — NoSegment
essentially cannot be triggered with default radii.

**`InvalidUrl` quirk:** any route starting at literal `0,...` or `0.5,0.5`-style small-integer
coordinates near Null Island returns, reproducibly:
```
curl "https://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/0,0;0.01,0.01"
```
→ HTTP 400 `{"message":"URL string malformed close to position 12: \"and\"","code":"InvalidUrl"}`
— a parser error, not a geo error; the message text is nonsensical for the input given and is stable
across repeated calls with different small decimals near the origin.

**Other codes seen:** `/trip` with 1 coordinate → `{"message":"Number of coordinates needs to be at
least two.","code":"InvalidOptions"}` (HTTP 400). The public docs (project-osrm.org/docs/v5.24.0/api/)
state the demo config caps "maximum number of locations allowed for specific services" per-service but
do not publish the exact numbers; this record supplies observed boundaries instead.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:19Z–08:21Z, curl (UA: NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai).

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