Monthly Digest: New Feeds, Minimum Age & Etag Headers

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📣 Your monthly GBFS news update! 🚲 🛴 🛵 🚘

🙌 GBFS Feeds Added Last Month

• November saw a large update to systems.csv with 38 new feeds from Austria 🇦🇹Switzerland 🇨🇭Germany 🇩🇪 Spain 🇪🇸 France 🇫🇷 Great Britain 🇬🇧 Greece 🇬🇷 Ireland 🇮🇪 Israel 🇮🇱 Italy 🇮🇹 Norway 🇳🇴 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦Slovakia 🇸🇰 and the Unitied States 🇺🇸

• This update also removed approximately 100 feeds that are no longer published or that now require authentication. 🙁

• If you’re looking for GBFS data that’s no longer available, please reach out to publishers and let them know the importance of open public data. 😊

✨ Spec Updates

• A vote was passed on #799 - Minimum Age Requirement. This will be part of the next Minor release, currently planned for May 2026.

💌 User Story
During the 2024 MobilityData Summit in Montreal, a workshop was held on preserving compute bandwidth when publishing GBFS. One of the results of this workshop was a recommendation to use Etag HTTP headers with If-None-Match to return 304-Not-Modified when appropriate. GBFS contributor Entur 🇳🇴 has implemented this and reports approximately 90% of requests are now handled with 304-Not-Modified responses. Ongoing discussion of this topic can be found at the GBFS repo issue #708.

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