It has opened new trade routes and we can see what they used for their roads and we can make ours better.
Are you referring to on an international level or national? Internationally it developed in the Soviet Union and the United States, nationally it was based in Texas.
The Scientific Process of Geography. Geography is considered a science and thus also uses the scientific method for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. There is no true definition of the scientific method because it varies so much between scientific disciplines.