 In the following years other maps were printed that often incorporated the name America.Although Waldseemüller had intended the name to apply only to a specific part of Brazil, other maps applied it to the entire continent.In 1538, Gerardus Mercator used America to name both the North and South continents on his influential map and by this point the name was securely fixed on the New World

After 1507, Waldseemüller and Ringmann continued to collaborate on a new edition of Ptolemy's "Geography".