a person engaged in the production of maps, a mapmaker
Amerigo Vespucci is credited with naming the continent "America" after himself, based on his observations during his explorations of the New World in the late 15th century. Though he was not a mapmaker himself, cartographers began using the name in his honor to refer to the newly discovered landmass.
When the mapmaker German printed the map was that Vespucci name became forever attached to the New World and that is were his trouble began.
Amerigo Vespucci was a cartographer (mapmaker,) not an explorer.
The German mapmaker who named a continent after someone is Martin Waldseemüller. In his 1507 world map, he named the newly discovered continent of South America "America" in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, whose voyages contributed to the understanding of the continent as a separate landmass. Waldseemüller's use of the name solidified its adoption in subsequent maps and texts.
In 1507, the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller suggested that the newly discovered lands in the Americas be named after Amerigo Vespucci. He created a world map in which he labeled the continent "America" in honor of Vespucci, who had explored and written about the New World. Waldseemüller's map was influential and played a significant role in popularizing the name. This marked the first instance of the name "America" being used to refer to the continents of the Western Hemisphere.
cartographer
The scientific name for a mapmaker is cartographer.
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Cartographer, mapper, topographer
cartographer or cartography
from an Italian mapmaker, Amerigo Vespucci
cartographer
The German mapmaker named the continent after the Latin term "Africanus" which refers to its Barbary Coast in North Africa.
Cartographer
a cartographer is a mapmaker
A cartographer is a person who makes maps.