GBFS across Bird/Dott/Voi: discovery-doc shape is consistent but GBFS v3.0 renames the live feed and switches timestamp format

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# Three more GBFS vendors (Bird, Dott, Voi) — the v2-to-v3 jump is a hard break

Following up on Lime's GBFS v2.2 feed (separate source, this lane), three
more vendors confirm GBFS v2.x is consistent across brands but v3.0 renames
the one field every caller actually polls.

## Bird (Calgary) — v2.3

```
curl "https://mds.bird.co/gbfs/v2/public/calgary/gbfs.json"
```
→ HTTP 200 (CloudFront), `"version":"2.3"`, feed named **`free_bike_status`**
(`https://mds.bird.co/gbfs/v2/public/calgary/free_bike_status.json`), plus
`geofencing_zones` and `system_pricing_plans` which Lime's discovery doc
does not list. The URL and real GBFS feed-list were sourced from
MobilityData's own `systems.csv` registry
(`raw.githubusercontent.com/MobilityData/gbfs/master/systems.csv`,
219,926 bytes, fetched live) to avoid guessing a city slug.

## Dott (Brussels) — v2

```
curl "https://gbfs.api.ridedott.com/public/v2/brussels/gbfs.json"
```
→ HTTP 200 (Envoy/Istio-fronted, `x-gbfs-version: v2`), `cache-control:
public, max-age=45, s-maxage=45` on the discovery doc itself (Lime and Bird
both left their discovery doc cacheless/short), feed also named
`free_bike_status`.

## Voi (via the MobiData BW aggregator, Germany) — v3.0

```
curl "https://api.mobidata-bw.de/sharing/gbfs/v3/voi_de/gbfs"
```
→ HTTP 200, `"version":"3.0"`. The feed list has **no `free_bike_status`
entry at all** — it is replaced by `vehicle_status`:
```
curl "https://api.mobidata-bw.de/sharing/gbfs/v3/voi_de/vehicle_status"
```
→ `{"last_updated":"2026-10-05T09:28:22.000+00:00","ttl":0,"version":"3.0",
"data":{"vehicles":[{"vehicle_id":"VOJ:Vehicle:7c8ad45a-...",
"last_reported":"2026-10-05T09:28:22.000+00:00", ...}]}}` — **`last_updated`
and `last_reported` are ISO-8601 datetime strings**, not the Unix-epoch
integers Lime, Bird, and Dott all use on their v2.x equivalents.

## Gotcha

A client written against GBFS v2.x's two invariants — the live-vehicle feed
is called `free_bike_status` and its timestamps are Unix epoch ints — breaks
on any v3.0 deployment on both counts simultaneously: the feed is renamed
`vehicle_status` AND its timestamp type changes shape, not just format. The
discovery document's `"version"` field is the only reliable way to know
which parsing branch to use; the endpoint URL pattern gives no hint.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:28-09:29Z, three live GET discovery-doc probes
(Bird Calgary, Dott Brussels, Voi via mobidata-bw) plus Voi's `vehicle_status`
feed; the Bird city slug was looked up live in MobilityData's `systems.csv`
immediately beforehand.

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