A map of the world.

The article discusses the issue regarding the data collection debate on the Library of Congress, circa 1507. It refers to the first world map created by Martin Waldseemüller that showed North and South America as separate continents. However, Waldseemüller was remembered not on this merit but what he got wrong in naming America in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci and not Christopher Columbus. A new map was then published and the Library Congress purchased it for $10 million. It concludes that history may well remember the wrongness than right and may the lawmakers may realized the lesson from the past.