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This is one of the many aspects of the so-called "Ostalgie": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie

Not only the title:

"Instead of expending energy to get the colony back on its feet, workers will dedicate themselves to selfish schemes — such as finding ways to place their clones into positions of power."

You're right. But seeing requests that look like "https://duckduckgo.com/mapkit/?https://api.apple-mapkit.com/......" there is little doubt that DDG forwards directions requests to Apple APIs.

Both are geocoders using OpenStreetMap data and backed with Elasticsearch. The main difference is how they handle geographical context, eg to determine in which city/region each place is located. Which is useful both for indexing the data and producing human-readable labels.

Pelias is using its own gazeteer (https://whosonfirst.org/) to index locations and remarkable zones. Whereas Mimirsbrunn relies only on OSM data for this task using Cosmogony (https://github.com/osm-without-borders/cosmogony), a tool that extracts official administrative boundaries and other shapes from OSM data. But the world is a complicated place, and OSM tagging scheme doesn't always lend itself to geocoding purposes. So it comes with a lot a caveats which are still being working on :)

The video is now available on the page.

That would need to be reproduced. I suppose the app itself could also have been put in a different state / with different settings between the two events.

Both are available, see https://www.maptiler.com/maps/