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Vespucci got the name only because a German mapmaker named Waldseemuller published a map in1538 crediting Vespucci with discovering a portion of Brazil.
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025
The process of changing the name of a geographic feature or place in the United States takes at least six months, allowing time for consultation with states, tribes, mapmakers and other interested parties.
—Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2025
Later, mapmakers simply applied the name to the land masses known as North and South America.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025
America’s federal government employs a dizzying range of workers: mail carriers and mapmakers, firefighters and fish biologists, volcanologists positioned on tectonic-plate boundaries, cooks on Navy submarines.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025
The process of changing the name of a geographic feature or place in the United States takes at least six months, allowing time for consultation with states, tribes, mapmakers and other interested parties.
—Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2025
Later, mapmakers simply applied the name to the land masses known as North and South America.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025
America’s federal government employs a dizzying range of workers: mail carriers and mapmakers, firefighters and fish biologists, volcanologists positioned on tectonic-plate boundaries, cooks on Navy submarines.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Mapmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mapmaker. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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mapmaker
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map·mak·er
ˈmap-ˌmā-kər 
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