Weekly Digest: Carshare v3.0 feeds, City field, Validation message, etc

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📣 Your weekly GBFS news update! 🚲 🛴 🛵 🚘

👍 Congratulations to the French operator Citiz which is leading by example by publishing GBFS v3.0 feeds for carsharing in 15 cities (cc @lenny-citiz). This makes them compliant with MMTIS regulation and easily integrable into trip planners that support carsharing, such as Transit (cc @cmonagle).

📍 The vote to Add field city in station_information was adopted, allowing to know the city of a station (useful for systems which extend over neighboring cities). Thank you @hbruch!

🤓 You can now view the availability of the 3,000 bike and car sharing stations from the 59 datasets published on the French National Access Point (cc @AntoineAugusti). Feel free to share with us features of mobility data platforms that you find interesting!

✅ A small change that can save a lot of time: when a feed cannot be parsed by the GBFS validator, the error message now suggests possible solutions instead of saying it’s a version issue. Thank you @Alessandro100!

👋 See you next week!