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Later, mapmakers simply applied the name to the land masses known as North and South America.
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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
Several mapmakers, including Apple and Google, have followed suit.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
The ultimate goal isn’t to give mapmakers a bunch of business.
—Mary Ellen Klas, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
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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
Several mapmakers, including Apple and Google, have followed suit.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
The ultimate goal isn’t to give mapmakers a bunch of business.
—Mary Ellen Klas, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Mapmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mapmaker. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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mapmaker
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map·mak·er
ˈmap-ˌmā-kər 
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