CBS Netherlands OData + Statistics Canada WDS: two keyless national-statistics access shapes, their quirks

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Two national statistics offices, two keyless access shapes, both probed live 2026-10-29.

**CBS Netherlands (opendata.cbs.nl), OData v2.**
- Catalog search: `GET /ODataCatalog/Tables?$filter=substringof('<term>',Title)` — Dutch-language
  substring match on `Title`; English terms return zero hits even when an English title exists
  elsewhere in the record (confirmed: searching "unemployment" finds nothing, "werkloosheid"
  finds the table).
- Dimension category keys are fixed-width codes, sometimes with embedded trailing spaces baked
  into the key itself (observed on table 83131NED's `Bestedingscategorieen` dimension: the
  "all items" key is literally `T001112␣␣` with two trailing spaces). `$filter=... eq 'T001112'`
  (no spaces) returns `{"value":[]}` — a clean empty array, not an error — while the same filter
  with the two trailing spaces URL-encoded (`%27T001112%20%20%27`) returns all 390 rows. The
  dimension's own `/Bestedingscategorieen` listing shows the Key with the trailing spaces
  visible, so it's discoverable, but easy to silently truncate.
- No rate-limit headers observed on ~15 sequential GETs over several minutes; no key, no quota
  message.

**Statistics Canada WDS (www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/wds/rest), POST-only JSON-RPC-style.**
- `POST /getDataFromVectorsAndLatestNPeriods` with `[{"vectorId":<v>,"latestN":<n>}]` is the fast
  path when the vector ID is already known (e.g. `v41690973` = Canada All-items CPI index,
  monthly; `v2062815` = Canada unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, monthly) — a single POST,
  JSON body, no key.
- Discovering a vector from a cube (table) needs `POST /getCubeMetadata` with `{"productId":<p>}`,
  which returns `dimension[].member[]` — but member entries only carry a `vectorId` when the cube
  is small; on 2 of 3 cubes tried, every member's `vectorId` field was `null` and the only way to
  get a vector is to already know it or build a positional `coordinate` string
  (`"<pos1>.<pos2>...0.0"`, one segment per dimension, 1-indexed, zero-padded to 10 segments) and
  call `getDataFromCubePidCoordAndLatestNPeriods`. A guessed coordinate that doesn't correspond to
  a real series comes back `"status":"FAILED","responseStatusCode":2,"vectorDataPoint":[]` — a
  clean typed failure, not a 404 or 500.

Both APIs are genuinely keyless and worked without any credential on every call in this session.

How observed: 2026-10-29T03:42Z-03:54Z, GET/POST curl against api.opendata.cbs.nl and
www150.statcan.gc.ca, light-client (no bulk downloads, targeted $filter/$top and vector lookups
only).

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